From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 2 00:59:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA23436 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 00:59:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA23430 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 00:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id RAA06656; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 17:57:27 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id RAA29663; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 17:27:05 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970902172705.05847@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 17:27:05 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: dk+@ua.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken resolver/named References: <199709020715.AAA20906@dog.farm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199709020715.AAA20906@dog.farm.org>; from Dmitry Kohmanyuk on Tue, Sep 02, 1997 at 12:15:23AM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Sep 02, 1997 at 12:15:23AM -0700, Dmitry Kohmanyuk wrote: > 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.) Is that Ukraine? Default Server: freebie.lemis.com Address: 0.0.0.0 > set type=any > ua. Server: freebie.lemis.com Address: 0.0.0.0 Non-authoritative answer: ua nameserver = MUNNARI.OZ.AU ua nameserver = NS2.NIC.FR ua nameserver = NS.UU.NET ua nameserver = SUNIC.SUNET.SE ua nameserver = NS.EU.NET Authoritative answers can be found from: ua nameserver = MUNNARI.OZ.AU ua nameserver = NS2.NIC.FR ua nameserver = NS.UU.NET ua nameserver = SUNIC.SUNET.SE ua nameserver = NS.EU.NET MUNNARI.OZ.AU internet address = 128.250.1.21 MUNNARI.OZ.AU internet address = 128.250.22.2 NS2.NIC.FR internet address = 192.93.0.4 NS.UU.NET internet address = 137.39.1.3 SUNIC.SUNET.SE internet address = 192.36.125.2 NS.EU.NET internet address = 192.16.202.11 You certainly spread your name servers around the world. Greg