Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 13:39:24 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken resolver/named Message-ID: <199708251239.NAA19389@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Aug 1997 09:34:45 %2B0200." <3138.872494485@verdi.nethelp.no>
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> > 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.
>
> Where do you see any prohibition of TLDs containing A records? Note that
> there *are* already TLDs containing A records in existence today (the
> first one I found was AI, Anguilla).
Hmm, I had a poke around too. net has an A record, but ORG doesn't.
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
I like Joerg's suggestion :-) It would solve my problems. Joerg,
any advance on some documentation about TLDs not having A records (or
even TLDs not needing A records) ?
I'd be nice to have the resolver behave as you suggested.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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