DNS-cache with custom gTLDs

[John Wobus]

2011/9/23 Kevin Darcy<kcd at chrysler.com>:
> You're almost certainly getting the NXDOMAIN because you're spoofing  
> the
> root servers, and your "fake" root servers don't have the same  
> knowledge as
> the real ones, so they'll return NXDOMAIN for some queries (whereas  
> dig
> +trace does not, because it follows the hierarchy down and asks  
> different
> nameservers). In other words, you're shooting yourself in the foot  
> with your
> hints-file trickery.

That was my thought as well.  Sometime NXDOMAINs also could simply be
inconsistent authoritative data at the other end.  Once again, building
a kluge to work around such a thing wouldn't be a good strategy.

John