Bogus NS records and Chocolate Chip Cookies

[Cricket Liu]

aaron wrote:
> If you reference the LINUX DNS HOWTO at:
> 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO
> 
> You'll notice Nicolai Langfeldt recommends using a bogus NS record
> when setting up a caching-only server. To me, this looks like a hack.
> Unfortunately, "DNS and BIND" doesn't address the issue so I've
> nothing to contrast Nicolai's solution with.
> 
> Is there a more elegant solution to this problem (problem == excluding
> an NS RR and getting the error "zone $ZONE/IN has no NS records") or
> is this hack considered standard practice?

A bogus NS record in which zone?  0.0.127.in-addr.arpa?  If it's in the
zone data file and the name server is authoritative for the zone, what
about it is bogus?

cricket

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