Everybody Resolves this Domain but Us.

[Pete Ehlke]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 09:27:10AM -0400, Chris Davis wrote:
> 
> This is the exact same problem I had with the IP address NS RDATA discussed
> on this list in the last few days.  Bad NS RDATA is passed with an answer.
> If you cache it, you look to be the broken one.
> 
> How much money and time needs to be expended on a problem before the
> software should prevent it?
> 

The responsibility for ensuring that a zone works rests with the zone's
administrators. Diffusing that responsibility is a horribly bad idea. How
far do you want to extend this concept? If a zone administrator
publishes an MX record that resolves to 127.0.0.1 or somewhere inside
1918 space, should we discard that? 

Remember, if you write idiot-proof software, nature produces a better
idiot.

-P.