Andrew Sullivan <a...@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote: > > What's tricky here is that the bailiwick-ness of something is only > relevant given a response.
My understanding is that "bailiwick" was originally applied to the DNS by djb. By his definition, bailiwicks are about how delegations are set up; they are a property of the zone data not of any particular message. The name servers for a zone are in-bailiwick if and only if their names are subdomains of the zone apex (or at the zone apex, though this is rare). In-bailiwick name servers require glue in their parent zone. The term comes from thinking about poisonous referrals and about when glue is required for locating a zone's servers, and how these considerations comflict to some extent. http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/notes.html (though he does not clearly define the term on that page). Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ North Utsire, South Utsire, Forties, Cromarty, Forth: Variable 3 or 4, becoming westerly or southwesterly 4 or 5, occasionally 6 later in Forties and Cromarty. Slight or moderate. Rain at times. Moderate or poor, occasionally good. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
