Non-improving referral

Gabi Nakibly gabinkbl at gmail.com
Sun Feb 4 11:13:21 UTC 2024


Thanks for the response. However,  I strongly prefer not to update the
parent zone as this is only a temporary nameserver for testing purposes.
Is there anyway to add a new name server (with a new name) without updating
the parent zone?

On Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 12:01 Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:

> You have your answer. Update the parent zone.
>
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> Mark Andrews
>
> On 4 Feb 2024, at 18:27, Gabi Nakibly <gabinkbl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi,
> I would like to set up a new temporary nameserver for my zone (say '
> example.com'), however for various reasons I prefer not to change the
> delegation of my parent zone ('.com'). So I need the current name server ('
> ns.example.com') to refer resolvers to my new temporary name server ('
> ns-temp.example.com'). However, when I tried to test this set-up with a
> BIND resolver, when the resolver got the delegation to the temporary name
> server it failed with 'non-improving referral'.
> How can I resolve this so the delegation will work for a BIND resolver
> having default config (or with any other resolver for that matter)? I know
> that I can simply update delegation at the parent zone to point directly to
> the new name server, but I prefer not to do this right now and I am looking
> for ways to do this without changing the parent delegation.
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