From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 08:59:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A7D016A4CE for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:59:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.yadt.co.uk (xfiles.yadt.co.uk [81.187.204.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0BF0643D3F for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:59:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davidt@yadt.co.uk) Received: (qmail 30927 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2004 16:59:38 -0000 Received: from gattaca.yadt.co.uk (HELO mail.gattaca.yadt.co.uk) (qmailr@81.187.204.179) by xfiles.yadt.co.uk with SMTP; 16 Mar 2004 16:59:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 54460 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Mar 2004 16:59:38 -0000 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:59:38 +0000 From: David Taylor To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040316165938.GB53651@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <6.0.0.22.2.20040315214718.021b0478@pop3.skylands.net> <20040316075707.GA94874@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <20040316155928.GA63817@sirene.sappho-net.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20040316155928.GA63817@sirene.sappho-net.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: ftp.perl.org strangeness X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:59:41 -0000 On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Nora Etukudo wrote: > Am 16. März 2004 um 07:57:07 +0000 schrieb David Malone: > > > The nameserver for ftp.perl.com has a problem when asked for any > > records other than A (ie. an IPv4 address). When asked for any other > > type of record, it returns NXDOMAIN, and this means "ftp.perl.com" > > Asking for MX and TXT works: > > # host -t TXT ftp.perl.org > ftp.perl.org is an alias for ftp.cpan.ddns.develooper.com. > ftp.cpan.ddns.develooper.com text "serviced by cpan.noris.de." > > # host -t MX ftp.perl.org > ftp.perl.org is an alias for ftp.cpan.ddns.develooper.com. > ftp.cpan.ddns.develooper.com mail is handled by 10 miette.develooper.com. > ftp.cpan.ddns.develooper.com mail is handled by 11 relaybackup.netcetera.dk. > And asking for 'ANY' returns the various A, TXT and MX records.. It seems someone didn't understand the meaning of 'NXDOMAIN' when they were writing the software, and returns that when there are no records of the requested type, instead of only when there are no records of _any_ type for that domain -- i.e. there is no such domain... -- David Taylor davidt@yadt.co.uk "The future just ain't what it used to be"