Claiming Authority for root

[Barry Margolin]

In article <22140.962302277 at gromit.rfc1035.com>,
Jim Reid  <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote:
>    Allen> When a reply is given, my name server claims authority for
>    Allen> the (root) domain.  Will other name servers on the internet
>    Allen> see this information and start asking me for all of it's
>    Allen> root requests?
>
>Only if they're stupid enough to ask your name server about the root
>zone or forward queries to your server. And as soon as they do that,
>they'll see your name space rather than the real one on the Internet.

They might send queries to domains that are delegated to his server, and it
might include root NS records in the Authority Section, and they could get
cached.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Burlington, MA
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