Re: bind patches++ (Re: Wildcards)

["Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr () baby-dragons com>]

        Hello Paul ,  Am I correct in the understanding that the below
        tells me that 9.2.2p2 does NOT contain the ablility to do
        root-delegation-only ?  Tia ,  JimL

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Paul Vixie wrote:
> if you installed the first isc wildcard patch you probably want the second.
> see www.isc.org/products/BIND/delegation-only.html for details.  the first
> patch didn't handle NS lookups (which don't occur in nature but it's sort of
> unnerving when they don't work in "dig").
> in addition to the "type delegation-only" zones, the latest release candidate
> has an additional "root-delegation-only" option.  this looks like:
>
>     options {
>         root-delegation-only exclude { "de"; "museum"; };
>     };
>
> thus the delegation-only behaviour becomes the default for the root domain,
> and all tld's except those listed.  DE has no wildcards but they do put
> customer A RRs into the DE zone itself.  MUSEUM has a wildcard but this was
> part of their application and it was approved and has not been a problem.
> f.6to4-servers.net is now running this if you want to try before you, um, buy.
> thanks very much to the membership of the bind forum who make this possible.
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