Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 07:41:28 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken resolver/named Message-ID: <19970825074128.ZB44842@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199708242347.JAA00507@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Aug 25, 1997 09:17:29 %2B0930 References: <199708241154.MAA00755@awfulhak.org> <199708242347.JAA00507@word.smith.net.au>
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As Mike Smith wrote: > > I do want to talk to real DNSs, but not for mis-typed names. > > This is the crux of the issue; how do you tell what is a mis-typed name > without looking it up? 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. -- 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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