Re: Cloudflare reverse DNS SERVFAIL, normal?

[Mark Andrews <marka () isc org>]

In message <20160829234737.GA16137 () cmadams net>, Chris Adams writes:
> Once upon a time, Mark Andrews <marka () isc org> said:
> > The following is general and is not directed at Cloudflare.  I know
> > some people don't think errors in the reverse DNS are not critical
> > but if you are delegated a zone it is your responsablity to ensure
> > your servers are correctly serving that zone regardless of where
> > it is in the DNS heirarchy.  Failure to do that causes additional
> > work for recursive servers.  If you don't want to serve a zone then
> > remove the delegation.
>
> You are assuming that an authoritative server operator has some way to
> know all the zones people delegate to their servers, and remove such
> delegations if they don't want to handle them.  That is a wrong
> assumption.

They have methods.  They choose not to use them.  See RFC 1033
COMPLAINTS then after that the court system.

Mark

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