From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 25 16:47:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA21103 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:47:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA21064 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:47:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.org (dev.lan.awfulhak.org [10.0.1.5]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA15266; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 00:38:10 +0100 (BST) Received: from dev.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id AAA14647; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 00:38:10 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199708252338.AAA14647@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" cc: Joerg Wunsch , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken resolver/named In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Aug 1997 08:49:21 +1000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 00:38:10 +0100 From: Brian Somers 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. 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 > -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....