About root zones

[Doug Barton]

On 01/02/2012 11:16, Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <mailman.654.1325531095.68562.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
>  Kevin Darcy <kcd at chrysler.com> wrote:
> 
>> I agree with Matus. BIND should be as self-sufficient as possible, and 
>> not make any assumptions about the capability of and/or the data it 
>> expects to get from the system resolver
> 
> If the system resolver is good enough for every other application 
> running on the system, it should be good enough for BIND.
> 
> Why not at least allow this as an option?

+1

Given that there exist today name server solutions that are
authoritative-only, it makes sense that BIND 9 should have a knob to do
this.

Also, consider the potential harm of cache poisoning when the features
are mixed.


Doug

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