BIND started replying to queries for .com with .COM

[Tony Finch]

Robert Edmonds <edmonds at mycre.ws> wrote:
> Tony Finch wrote:
> > Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > What is considered the source of the ownername for, say, "com."?
> >
> > It should be the root zone master file.
>
> Why not the com zone master file?

If you are going to pick a single authority for a particular label, it
should be the zone that determines whether that label exists or not.

Tony.
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