Hidden Master

[Chimento, Douglas]

ok , hold on 
Here is what I am saying 
by putting in an unresolveable SOA MNAME this is what COULD happen...
The name server loading the zone with an unresolveable SOA MNAME
will NOT set the AA ( Authoritative Answer)  BIT in its response to queries.
I am not entirely sure about this but if this is the CASE would this be bad
implematation?

Thanks  

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From: Michael Kjorling [mailto:michael at kjorling.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 5:52 PM
To: BIND-Users
Subject: RE: Hidden Master



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The only criteria that determines whether a DNS server is authorative
for a zone or not is whether it has data about the zone itself, that
is, not obtained from any other source (except, in the case of a slave
server, from the master).

The SOA has nothing to do with that. As people have pointed out
numerous times throughout the time I've been reading this
newsgroup/mailing list, the SOA MNAME is only used for Dynamic
Updates (and even then sending to the name servers mentioned in the NS
records is an option).


Michael Kjörling


On Nov 6 2001 17:47 -0500, Chimento, Douglas wrote:

> no , because now the SOA is NOT resolvable, and that CAN"T be good.
> I will review the RFC'S to see if that is the case.
> But I think this means that the DNS server is not authoritative for the
zone
> and thus , no authoritative answers will occur.

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