FORMERR for wikipedia...

Chris Thompson cet1 at cam.ac.uk
Thu Mar 17 09:30:19 UTC 2011


On Mar 16 2011, Jay Ford wrote:

[...]
>To me it looks like BIND is doing the right thing (as usual ;^),

Yes (or *a* right thing, anyway).

> but the wikipedia... servers are returning bogus responses.

Yes. Specifically the response is neither a valid "nodata" response,
nor a valid referral. Distinguishing these is a sensitive business,
as RFC 2308 section 2.2 explains.

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk



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