Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 12:56:50 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken resolver/named Message-ID: <199708241156.MAA00913@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Aug 1997 09:00:26 %2B0200." <19970824090026.RY16396@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> As Mike Smith wrote: > > > I don't understand how this would be useful. If you say "x", and "x" > > is not a local name, you _must_ consult someone else to determine if > > it's a valid name at all. How else are you supposed to know one way or > > the other? > > By looking whether there's at least one dot in the name. I think > resolvers used to behave like this back some time ago. So, > > x > > would only be tried as > > x.search.domain1 x.search.domain2 > > and then given up, while > > x.foo > > would be tried as > > x.foo.search.domain1 x.foo.search.domain2 x.foo > > I think this is reasonable since there are no A/MX/CNAME records to be > expected for a TLD (i.e. a TLD is always only be used as part of the > recursion), so it could be special-cased. I don't know what a TLD is :-(, but the above is how I'd expect things to work. > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org> <http://www.awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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