From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 25 15:49:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA17800 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 15:49:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.8.15.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA17787 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 15:49:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA01667; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 08:49:22 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 08:49:21 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Joerg Wunsch cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken resolver/named In-Reply-To: <19970825211856.DK43421@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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