* Mark Andrews: > Authoritative servers need a cache. Authoritative servers > need to ask queries. The DNS protocol has evolved since > RFC 1034 and RFC 1035 and authoritative servers need to > translate named to addresses for their own use. > > See RFC 1996, A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of Zone > Changes (DNS NOTIFY).
Authoritative servers in typical configurations need a resolver (and with views, you might even need a very specific resolver). This does not mean that authoritative servers must be caches. It also does not mean that a resolver operated from the view which contains a particular authoritatively served zone picks up the correct data (in other words, there are configurations where the current BIND magic does not work). -- Florian Weimer <fwei...@bfk.de> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99
