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Re: Bare TLD resolutions
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:20:11 -0700
On Sep 17, 2014, at 6:01 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia () gmail com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:The latter would seem to be avoidable by making sure that *DNS resolution of bare TLDs always returns NXDOMAIN*.[snip] Not NXDOMAIN. When TLD. is looked up, they should always return NOERROR.
Well… A TLD which does not exist should return NXDOMAIN. For example, if I do a query for .NONEXISTANTTLD., then I should get NXDOMAIN… Owens-MacBook-Pro:Downloads owendelong$ dig NONEXISTANTTLD. ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> NONEXISTANTTLD. ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 64254 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;NONEXISTANTTLD. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: . 3600 IN SOA a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2014091701 1800 900 604800 86400 But for any TLD which exists, yes. Owen
Current thread:
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions, (continued)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Mark Andrews (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Andrew Sullivan (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Jay Ashworth (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Doug Barton (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Jay Ashworth (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Masataka Ohta (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions David Conrad (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Owen DeLong (Sep 17)