[119198] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What DNS Is Not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Balashov)
Mon Nov 9 18:07:35 2009
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:06:56 -0500
From: Alex Balashov <abalashov@evaristesys.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3ljifjwni.fsf@nsa.vix.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
When I write applications that make DNS queries, I expect the request
to turn NXDOMAIN if the host does not exist - HTTP as well as
non-HTTP, but especially non-HTTP.
Anything else is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. I don't understand how or
why this could possibly be controversial.
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