Re: consensus call of RR prefix

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:56:29PM +0100,
 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote 
 a message of 32 lines which said:

>    and only one mainstream DNS server software package, [2]djbdns,
>    actually has the ability to selectively disable the use of
>    DNS/TCP for its content DNS service.  Other content DNS server
>    softwares have the capability of disabling the "zone transfer"
>    database replication mechanism; but that is not the same as
>    disabling the use of DNS/TCP, old wives tales to the contrary
>    notwithstanding.

I am not sure you know what you are talking about. nsd
(http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/nsd/), which is used for k.root-servers.net
and for our ns2.nic.fr, has such a capability (just run it with -n 0).