Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 08:49:21 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken resolver/named Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970826084730.22575I-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19970825211856.DK43421@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > 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... What about a country like Nauru. There are only a few thousand people. They could all have e-mail addresses fred@nr, and use nr as their POP server, thus nr would require an A record. Danny
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