.Com domain listing non-gtld name servers

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Thu Jul 19 20:15:15 UTC 2001


   From: "Cricket Liu" <cricket at nxdomain.com>
   Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:13:48 -0600

   > The GTLD servers should only have NS records and some A records (when glue
   > is required).  They should never have MX records.  I haven't checked, but
   > maybe some of them have recursion enabled, which would allow them to cache
   > other stuff.

   Jeez, I hope not.

   No, I just checked.  They all have recursion disabled.

IIRC, at least one of the root servers had recursion enabled the last time
I checked, which may have been about a year ago.  I just checked now and
none of them do, either.

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


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