From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 24 00:51:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA20857 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 00:51:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA20852 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 00:51:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA28416 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 09:51:36 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA21079; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 09:00:26 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970824090026.RY16396@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 09:00:26 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken resolver/named References: <199708240019.BAA00819@awfulhak.org> <199708240300.MAA00846@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199708240300.MAA00846@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Aug 24, 1997 12:30:55 +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- 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. ;-)