Bogus NS records and Chocolate Chip Cookies

[John Hascall]

"Cricket Liu" <cricket at menandmice.com> wrote:
> 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?

   The linux howto in question uses 'linux.bogus' as the example domain
   (arguably 'example.com' would have been a less confusing choice).

John