[Pdns-users] unwanted SERVFAIL with bind backend

[Matthias Leopold]

Am 2013-06-28 17:28, schrieb Peter van Dijk:
> Hello Michael,
>
> On Jun 28, 2013, at 17:02 , Matthias Leopold wrote:
>
>> these are the requirements for the process of a zone deletion by nic.at
>>
>> https://www.nic.at/ui/index.php/zonedel/pagezonedelintro/?lang=en-iso-8859-15
>>
>> they only talk about REFUSED and NXDOMAIN. in the past i experienced that SERVFAIL indeed doesn't pass their check, so my intended administrative zone deletion requests at nic.at didn't succed. when i asked about NOERROR (which i could produce using "send-root-referral") they pointed me to the above
>
>
> I see, indeed.
>
> Those requirements are weird. NXDOMAIN is -not- a correct response for "domain not known here", and REFUSED is not the only valid way to say "domain is not known here".
>
> I would suggest taking this up with nic.at, if you can. If you have trouble getting through to the right people there, please let me know.
>
> Kind regards,
>

hi peter,

thx for your reply. before i start arguing with nic.at: do i get this 
right that my only choices for non existing domains with powerdns (at 
least with 2.9.22, which i'm using now)  are 'SERVFAIL' and 'NOERROR'? 
is there no chance for 'REFUSED'?

thx again
matthias