Hidden Master

[Cricket Liu]

> 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?

I suppose one could hypothesize the existence of a name server
that would act that way, but no BIND name server or Microsoft
DNS Server does, to my knowledge.

cricket

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