Re: [nznog] ns1,2,3,5.dns.net.nz hot being helpful

On 28 Sep 2004, at 17:52, Don Stokes wrote:

Tim Nicholas wrote:

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Anyone know why ns1 ns2 ns3 and ns5.dns.net.nz aren't giving out useful information?

That's because they don't have "useful information". They have delegations to name servers that do.

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Basically, the BIND 8 servers give "answers" to NS records queries when they don't actually have "answers" to give. All the rest give delegation responses, just as when faced with a non-NS record (which is the usual case). It's all working fine. You'll see the same behaviour in other name servers.

Oh, would you look at that. I should probably stick to configuring routers. Joe