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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: Broken resolver/named 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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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. ;-)

-- 
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