Bogus NS records and Chocolate Chip Cookies
John Hascall
john at iastate.edu
Sat Nov 30 20:13:28 UTC 2002
"Cricket Liu" <cricket at menandmice.com> wrote:
> aaron wrote:
> > If you reference the LINUX DNS HOWTO at:
> >
> > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO
> >
> > You'll notice Nicolai Langfeldt recommends using a bogus NS record
> > when setting up a caching-only server. To me, this looks like a hack.
> > Unfortunately, "DNS and BIND" doesn't address the issue so I've
> > nothing to contrast Nicolai's solution with.
> >
> > Is there a more elegant solution to this problem (problem == excluding
> > an NS RR and getting the error "zone $ZONE/IN has no NS records") or
> > is this hack considered standard practice?
>
> A bogus NS record in which zone? 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa? If it's in the
> zone data file and the name server is authoritative for the zone, what
> about it is bogus?
The linux howto in question uses 'linux.bogus' as the example domain
(arguably 'example.com' would have been a less confusing choice).
John
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