NS and recursive? query

[Barry Margolin]

In article <37D2F6D8.94683A2 at innercite.com>,
Mike Machado  <mike at innercite.com> wrote:
>Now I was hoping when the queries for stuff like mail.countrydog.com
>came to server 1 it would simply give an NS answer and the client
>resolver would go ask server2.innercite.com for the answer.

Sorry, this doesn't work.  Referrals must be for a deeper domain than the
one that the server is presumed to be authoritative for, i.e. they're only
allowed when you've delegated a subdomain.  Otherwise you get the error
"countrydog.com !< countrydog.com" logged.

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