[ On Friday, March 9, 2001 at 14:36:26 (-0500), Shawn McMahon wrote: ]
Subject: Re: mail.yahoo.com, "missing A records" and squid proxy
Possibly. According to the RFCs that's a perfectly valid configuration, but according to some pedantic anal retentives (hi, Greg!) it's not.
Well, you don't have to be much of a PAR to find a problem with this: $ host -r -Z -t ns yahoo.akadns.net za.akadns.net yahoo.akadns.net. 90000 IN NS ze.akadns.net. yahoo.akadns.net. 90000 IN NS zk.akadns.net. !!! yahoo.akadns.net NS host zk.akadns.net does not exist yahoo.akadns.net. 90000 IN NS zh.akadns.net. yahoo.akadns.net. 90000 IN NS zj.akadns.net. !!! yahoo.akadns.net NS host zj.akadns.net does not exist yahoo.akadns.net. 90000 IN NS zb.akadns.net. yahoo.akadns.net. 90000 IN NS zi.akadns.net. !!! yahoo.akadns.net NS host zi.akadns.net does not exist yahoo.akadns.net. 90000 IN NS zg.akadns.net. yahoo.akadns.net. 90000 IN NS zf.akadns.net. yahoo.akadns.net. 90000 IN NS zc.akadns.net. yahoo.akadns.net. 90000 IN NS zd.akadns.net. yahoo.akadns.net. 90000 IN NS zl.akadns.net. !!! yahoo.akadns.net NS host zl.akadns.net does not exist yahoo.akadns.net. 90000 IN NS za.akadns.net. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>