Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 00:15:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@dog.farm.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broken resolver/named Message-ID: <199709020715.AAA20906@dog.farm.org>
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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?"
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