From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 2 00:18:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA21833 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 00:18:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minor.stranger.com (stranger.vip.best.com [204.156.129.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA21826 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 00:18:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dog.farm.org (dog.farm.org [207.111.140.47]) by minor.stranger.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA01396 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 00:19:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dk@localhost) by dog.farm.org (8.7.5/dk#3) id AAA20906 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 00:15:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 00:15:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk Message-Id: <199709020715.AAA20906@dog.farm.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broken resolver/named Newsgroups: cs-monolit.gated.lists.freebsd.hackers Organization: FARM Computing Association Reply-To: dk+@ua.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <3138.872494485@verdi.nethelp.no> you wrote: > > As i wrote: the TLDs are not supposed to contain A or CNAME entries at > > all. So if you're looking up an A entry, you don't need to query it > > in the root domain if it doesn't contain at least one dot. > Where do you see any prohibition of TLDs containing A records? Note that > there *are* already TLDs containing A records in existence today (the > first one I found was AI, Anguilla). > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no Just to add, there is nothing prohibiting one to have MX records for TLD, too. (we have ones for .UA so Postmaster@UA works.) It is amusing how many people name their machines ua all over the world and have resolver which tries host names without domain first ;-) -- "Mr. Worf, scan that ship." "Aye captain. 300 dpi?"