[dns-operations] What would it take...

[Mark Andrews]

In message <54FFE769.4020000 at pletterpet.nl>, Matthijs Mekking writes:
> Mark,
> 
> On 11-03-15 05:39, Mark Andrews wrote:
> >>>> 2) Authoritative servers don't launch queries.
> >>>
> >>> Has NEVER been true.  SOA/IXFR queries are done regularly by
> >>> authoritative servers.  For over the last decade queries for
> >>> nameserver addresses have been done for NOTIFY.
> >>
> >> Okay, but, the queries are sent to IP addresses held in configurations or
> >> in authoritative data, not relying on what is learned at sea.  They
> >> certainly don't iterate.
> > 
> > Yes, they do iterate and have done for over 15 years now.  Just
> > because you havn't noticed that they do this doesn't mean that it
> > is not been being done.
> 
> BIND9 perhaps, but certainly not all authoritative servers do that.

I didn't say all authoritative servers.  The claim was that authoritative
servers don't iterate.  That claim is not correct.

Mark
 
> Best regards,
>   Matthijs
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