Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 00:38:10 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken resolver/named Message-ID: <199708252338.AAA14647@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Aug 1997 08:49:21 %2B1000." <Pine.BSF.3.91.970826084730.22575I-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>
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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.
Maybe the best way is to have an option in resolv.conf that disallows
TLD lookups ?
options no-tld-lookup
This would only mask out non-dotted lookups so that resolutions of
"x.y" would work as they currently do.
> Danny
>
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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