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Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Mon Nov 5 01:58:33 2007

From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: Christopher Morrow <christopher.morrow@gmail.com>,
        nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:56:45 +0100
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0711041143020.4901@clifden.donelan.com> (Sean
	Donelan's message of "Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:52:11 -0500 (EST)")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


* Sean Donelan:

> I just wish the IETF would acknowledge this and go ahead and define a
> DNS bit for artificial DNS answers for all these "address correction"
> and "domain parking" and "domain tasting" people to use for their keen
> "Web 2.0" ideas.
>
> And for all the other non-Web protocols which get confused, can treat
> that artificially generated crap/answers like NXDOMAIN.

It's not that simple, you need three states: original, rewritten NODATA,
and rewritten NXDOMAIN.  Perhaps a general "original RCODE" is
necessary; I haven't checked this.

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