[RFCI-Discuss] wirralnews.com

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 07:44:04AM -0400, Derek J. Balling wrote:

> So, literally, the first thing we do is chase it down, looking for  
> someone to authoritatively say "they're the nameserver". In this case,  
> that fails.
> 
> >Still no authoritative answer, but you know where to look.
> 
> No, that's the fundamental issue... if you don't have an authoritative  
> NS set, you DON'T know where to look. And if the people the parent  
> zones said "they'll know for sure" tell you authoritatively, "There is  
> no NS", then (programatically) you've got no way of disproving it,  
> short of ignoring the DNS rules yourself.

But you *do* have an authoritative NS set.  It just happens to be
an empty set.

The gtld server points you to a server, and that server answers
authoritatively.

Never mind if this is too complicated to handle in real life. I was
just trying to help.

cheers
alex