[dns-operations] Concerns regarding the ICANN/IANA DNS vulnerability checker

[Paul Vixie]

> > Another reason, and this is not that known, is that the
> > authoritative server needs to notify others at times, and needs to
> > resolve and cache those addresses, despite its configuration.
> 
> Ouch, thanks for sharing this information.  With BIND 9, this also
> happens for a view which is explicitedly configured as "recursion no".
> 
> Is there any particular reason why BIND cannot use the configured
> system resolver to locate the server to send notifies to?  Can this
> behavior be changed through configuration, so that BIND acts as a true
> authoritative-only server?

file a bug report plz.

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