On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Niall O Broin wrote:
> That brings up an interesting point - what happens if all the name
> servers for a zone die, and a querying server, which has cached the
> NS records, is looking for an answer?
Not going to get one really. Unless you mean something else by "die"
than is commonly accepted ;).
> As it has cached an auth. answer, it's not going to look to the
> glue records again until the TTL expires.
Right. AIUI, that would be perfectly acceptable behaviour for a
querying server.
regards,
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