All, good to see nsd make progress (played with it a litte while ago, but tinydns continues to serve me best). I understand that nsd (as most non-BIND servers) returns SERVFAIL for questions for which it it does have neither authoritative nor non- authoritative data (i.e. it is lame) and that this behaviour is RFC- conformant and certainly best-practice for authoritative-only servers. Some TLD registries, however, make unreasonable demands regarding the behaviour of servers to which they delegate zones. Most notably the .fr and .it registries, which apparently demand that servers return a (non-authoritative!, in the case of .it) referral to the root servers when they are lame. These demands are highly questionable -to say the least- and are hard and sometimes impossible to follow for users of at least tinydns and nsd. I was wondering if RIPE or a group from the RIPE community might appeal to those registries and try to make them stop acting stupid. -Stefan -- junior guru SP666-RIPE SMP@{IRC,SILC}