Quoting Rod Keys on Saturday October 11, 2008:
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| This tool has been implemented quickly to assist name server operators.
| It may have problems as it has not been thoroughly tested, so you should
| also perform your own tests and use this only as a guide. We appreciate
| any comments or bug reports on this tool ? please drop a note to
| iana§iana.org. Port entropy results provided by DNS-OARC.Kim,
| Read the notes!

I know what the notes say, I wrote the tool. But in case there was
any doubt it can easily be verified independently that one of the
authorities provides recursive name service:

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> +recurse example.com &#167;ns9.quick.net.au
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 27990
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;example.com.                   IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
example.com.            172800  IN      A       208.77.188.166

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
example.com.            172800  IN      NS      a.iana-servers.net.
example.com.            172800  IN      NS      b.iana-servers.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.iana-servers.net.     17557   IN      A       192.0.34.43

;; Query time: 685 msec
;; SERVER: 210.9.33.77#53(210.9.33.77)
;; WHEN: Fri Oct 10 18:04:46 2008
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 109

kim