BIND 8.2: 99% server load when lame delegation occurs (reprised)

[Barry Margolin]

In article <Pine.BSI.4.05.9906051557570.12581-100000 at hq.capu.net>,
John N Dvorak  <dvorak at capu.net> wrote:
>
>On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Barry Margolin wrote:
>
>>I just did:
>>
>>dig gruppo.com a @ns.capu.net +norecurse
>>
>>and it didn't seem to cause a loop, it just returned the NS records in the
>>Authority section.
>
>This does seem to cause the loop.  And, using nslookup (evil thing that it
>is) remotely or locally (on one of the nameservers) also causes it.

If it goes into the loop, why did it return an answer?

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