From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 24 22:52:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA20863 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 22:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA20857 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 22:52:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA13044 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 07:52:09 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id HAA27731; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 07:41:28 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970825074128.ZB44842@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 07:41:28 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken resolver/named References: <199708241154.MAA00755@awfulhak.org> <199708242347.JAA00507@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199708242347.JAA00507@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Aug 25, 1997 09:17:29 +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mike Smith wrote: > > I do want to talk to real DNSs, but not for mis-typed names. > > This is the crux of the issue; how do you tell what is a mis-typed name > without looking it up? As i wrote: the TLDs are not supposed to contain A or CNAME entries at all. So if you're looking up an A entry, you don't need to query it in the root domain if it doesn't contain at least one dot. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)