On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:42:45PM +0100, Stefan Paletta <stefanp@cabal1.com> wrote a message of 25 lines which said:
Some TLD registries, however, make unreasonable demands regarding the behaviour of servers to which they delegate zones. Most notably the .fr and .it registries, which apparently demand that servers return a (non-authoritative!, in the case of .it) referral to the root servers when they are lame.
You may wish to refer to the dnsop archives, and the 'Should a nameserver know about itself?' thread, starting at: http://www.cafax.se/dnsop/maillist/2001-05/msg00009.html ( I am not expressing an opinion of the RIPE NCC, just work I did at my previous employer )
I am not involved in the daily operations of the '.fr' registry but, AFAIK, the ZoneCheck tool (check it out yourself <URL:http://www.nic.fr/zonecheck/>) requires a referral only if your server claims to be recursive.
Is this 'recursive for the zone being delegated' (somewhat bad) or 'recursive' in general ? Regards, -- Bruce Campbell RIPE Systems/Network Engineer NCC www.ripe.net - PGP562C8B1B Operations/Security