[dns-operations] about NXDOMAIN under the TLD .ws

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Tue Mar 22 10:20:54 UTC 2016


On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:13:20AM +0000,
 TOURNAT Guillaume <gtournat at tibco.fr> wrote 
 a message of 86 lines which said:

> Wildcard made on second level by a registry : can this practice may
> be considered as a liar DNS ?

No. By definition, an authoritative name server
is... authoritative. Whatever it says, is the truth. (Lying DNS is
when a third-party, such as a resolver, modifies data for which it is
not authoritative.)



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