From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 25 12:23:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA02901 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:23:06 -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 MAA02896 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:23:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA20128 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:22:35 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id VAA29537; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:18:57 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970825211856.DK43421@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:18:56 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken resolver/named References: <3138.872494485@verdi.nethelp.no> <199708251239.NAA19389@awfulhak.org> 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: <199708251239.NAA19389@awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Aug 25, 1997 13:39:24 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian Somers wrote: > Hmm, I had a poke around too. net has an A record, but ORG doesn't. net doesn't have an A record. > 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) ? Of course, they are allowed to do so, but i think it's fairly pointless. (Steinar pointed out to me that even .dk has an A RR, blech.) Perhaps we might add a hack for people like you and me that is disabled by default... -- 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. ;-)