Hidden Master

[Chimento, Douglas]

Sorry , you (people ) are right.  I am wrong , 
so in the end putting a unresolvable SOA MNAME record would be fine?

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Cricket Liu [mailto:cricket at menandmice.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 12:29 AM
To: Chimento, Douglas; bind-users at isc.org
Subject: RE: Hidden Master


> 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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