Mark, On 11-03-15 05:39, Mark Andrews wrote: >>>> 2) Authoritative servers don't launch queries. >>> >>> Has NEVER been true. SOA/IXFR queries are done regularly by >>> authoritative servers. For over the last decade queries for >>> nameserver addresses have been done for NOTIFY. >> >> Okay, but, the queries are sent to IP addresses held in configurations or >> in authoritative data, not relying on what is learned at sea. They >> certainly don't iterate. > > Yes, they do iterate and have done for over 15 years now. Just > because you havn't noticed that they do this doesn't mean that it > is not been being done.
BIND9 perhaps, but certainly not all authoritative servers do that. Best regards, Matthijs _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
