On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Peter Mott wrote:
[1] Registrar should be able to register a name without specifying any name servers [2] Registry should require 2 or more name servers to be specified before including in a zone build [3] No tests for auth servers need to be completed by the registry at delegation time [4] Registrars may or may not include an auth test at registration time (as domainz registrar does today)
Hmm, agreed on 1,3 & 4, but:
My point [2] above is common sense, and not specified in any RFC. ICANN registries will in fact delegate a name to only one name server if that is all that is entered into the registry by a registrar.
rfc1912? And perhaps rfc2182 is relevant too? rfc1912 seems to be depreciated though, yet still seems to be recited as doctrine by many people that repetatedly violate the suggestions in 2182. My take on the latter is that it's not worth having more than one namserver if they're going to be sitting next to each other, plugged into the same power and same network switch. And when a number of domains in use today are simply 'vanity' personal ones that point to a simple webpage with an email forwarding service, requiring a second nameserver elsewhere that points people at the blackhole that exists when a SPoF takes out the primary nameserver, web server and mail relay seems a waste of effort. -- ** Colin Palmer, Systems and Development Group, University of Waikato, NZ ** - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog