At 06:28 PM 9/28/98 -0700, Stephen Stuart wrote:
To reiterate the question posed by the original poster, (donning asbestos), why is this bad?
If you use a "*" as a label for an NS record, you will answer with a referral for any label. *Any* label, not just the ones for which you completed the receiving end of the zone cut. Think of it as the ultimate lame delegation.
Speaking of lame delegations, this has been polluting my syslog files lately;
Sep 28 18:42:27 falcon named[12943]: Lame server on 'ns3.above.net' (in 'above.net'?): [128.9.0.107].53 'b.root-servers.net': learnt (A=".",NS=".") Sep 28 18:42:27 falcon named[12943]: Lame server on 'ns3.above.net' (in 'above.net'?): [192.33.4.12].53 'c.root-servers.net': learnt (A=".",NS=".") Sep 28 18:42:28 falcon named[12943]: Lame server on 'ns3.above.net' (in 'above.net'?): [128.8.10.90].53 'd.root-servers.net': learnt (A=".",NS=".") Sep 28 18:42:28 falcon named[12943]: Lame server on 'ns3.above.net' (in 'above.net'?): [192.203.230.10].53 'e.root-servers.net': learnt (A=".",NS=".") Sep 28 18:42:28 falcon named[12943]: Lame server on 'ns3.above.net' (in 'above.net'?): [192.36.148.17].53 'i.root-servers.net': learnt (A=".",NS=".") Sep 28 18:42:28 falcon named[12943]: Lame server on 'ns3.above.net' (in 'above.net'?): [192.5.5.241].53 'f.root-servers.net': learnt (A=".",NS=".")
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