[Community-Discuss] Yet more data base problems/inconsistancies

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Ashil Oogarah

On behalf of AFRINIC’s IT and Engineering Team



> On 30 Nov 2020, at 06:48, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:

> 

> In message <20201130013319.xddpolsgaynzlza6 at benm-laptop>, 

> Ben Maddison <benm at workonline.africa> wrote:

> 

>> This seems fairly clear, to me at least, that having delegations at the

>> same authoritative nameserver for a subdomain and a

>> subdomain-of-a-subdomain is problematic.

> 

> I don't see that.

> 

>> Consider:

>> ns-a delegates foo.example.com to ns-b

>>          and bar.foo.example.com to ns-c

>> ns-b delegates bar.foo.example.com to ns-d

>> 

>> Who is authoritative for host.bar.foo.example.com?

> 

> My understanding is that the delegation of DNS authority works a lot

> like routing, i.e. in any case where two or more DNS authority delegations

> -could- theoretically be applicable, the most specific DNS delegation wins.

> 

> Of course, if there are ties, where each of two or more delegations are

> equally specific, then that's problematic.  But I don't think we are

> discussing such cases at the moment.

> 

> I freely admit that I may perhaps not be on entirely solid ground when

> it comes to this "most specific wins" rule, but I do believe that's how

> DNS works.  If I am wrong about that, I will be happy to be corrected.

> 

> 

> Regards,

> rfg

> 

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