Answers from com. nameservers

[Adam Tkac]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:19:53PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:11:14PM +0100,
>  Adam Tkac <atkac at redhat.com> wrote 
>  a message of 127 lines which said:
> 
> > Could someone here please try explain me why all com. nameservers
> > returns NS delegation records in answer section but all other
> > servers returns them in authority section?
> 
> Warning: flamewar ahead.

Hm :)

> 
> The ".com" name servers (which use the Atlas software) follow an old
> rule (which was also followed by old BIND implementations) which is
> now widely regarded as incorrect.
> 

I never heard about this problem before. Thanks for your
concisely answer.

> On every DNS-related mailing list, this issue (and the subvsequent
> flame war) pops every two or three months.
> 
> > If both behaviors are correct 
> 
> Only one is correct, but since you cannot replace Verisign overnight,
> a DNS client has to deal with both behaviors.
> 
> > then it looks that host utility is buggy
> 
> Yes.
> 

Ok, bugreport is going ahead.

Adam

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Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc.