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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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