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Re: Bare TLD resolutions
From: Mark Andrews <marka () isc org>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 08:05:05 +1000
In message <21906507.2046.1410990673107.JavaMail.root () benjamin baylink com>, Ja y Ashworth writes:
----- Original Message -----From: "Mark Andrews" <marka () isc org>Search lists are for hosts and host like things. Resolver libraries have different interfaces for different purposes. Single label hostnames for reaching non local equipment was deliberately phase out in the 1980's as it was clearly a bad concept.Yes, and we're discussing the practical reason *why* it's a bad concept. :-) My abject apologies to everyone who didn't get that I was talking about the *source* of the problem by synecdoche.
The source of the problem is bad search list handling. It wouldn't matter what records are there if the search list handling was correct. -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka () isc org
Current thread:
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions, (continued)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Eric Brunner-Williams (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions David Conrad (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Tony Finch (Sep 19)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions David Conrad (Sep 19)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions John Levine (Sep 21)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Jay Ashworth (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Andrew Sullivan (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Mark Andrews (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Jay Ashworth (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Mark Andrews (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Andrew Sullivan (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions David Conrad (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Owen DeLong (Sep 17)