Feizhou wrote: > For his stated purpose yes they do: "that clients are always *forced* to > use an autoritative name server". I take that to mean that those clients > will be able to go ask an authoritative server which means they need to > be able to find the authoritative server and that means following > referrals. Yeah. But the problem is (in my experience) that people sometimes want clients to get authoritative answers for cosmetic reasons, not realizing some of their clients have crippled resolvers, and than they get into trouble. It is best to let the name server do the resolving (and deal with the problems on that level). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061219/b30bba71/attachment-0005.sig>