dns zone delegation

[Michael Milligan]

Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <4A4DD8A6.70902 at bluewin.ch>, "Martin.Wismer." writes:
>> Hello Mark, Hello Jittinan,
>>
>> thank you for informing us/me, that  bluewin.ch  shod do some 
>> improovements in our dns-settings.
>> Yes, the bluewin.ch is on 4 dns-bind-Server's, but some Entries, 
>> www.bluewin.ch, are delegated to 4 Global-Site-Selectors which act as 
>> DNS-Server's.
>> Mark:
>> If I understand you correctly, the GSS should also return SOA and NS 
>> Records for the domain www.bluewin.ch.
>> Could you confirm, that's, what a propper delegation would mean?
> 
> 	Yes.  That is what should be returned when a SOA or NS 
> 	query is made for www.bluewin.ch to the GSS servers.
> 

My gawd...  say it ain't so.  I opened bugs for this with Cisco way back
when it was called Distributed Director (circa 1996).  So sad to see
this is /still/ broken and that they just don't care about fixing it.
And I bet it still does improper "bouncing" (referrals) back to a
different set of servers for resolving records it doesn't have (e.g.,
MX).  All these (mis)behaviors regularly causes problems for
troubleshooters.  And I can just imagine how they will deal with DNSSEC...

Regards,
Mike

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Michael Milligan                                   -> milli at acmeps.com