[174512] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bare TLD resolutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Wed Sep 17 13:46:50 2014
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From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <13054977.2006.1410975369686.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:45:23 -0700
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Jay,
On Sep 17, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> We're talking, largely, about error cases *that used to break as you =
wanted,
> and now might not*.
Yep. Well, it used to break if you happened to be using the right =
version of resolver library. There have been cases where operating =
system vendors had different search path behaviors in their resolver =
libraries depending on version and even patch level. It=92s all a bit =
of a mess.
>> There are a few ccTLDs that provide apex wildcards: they=92ll return =
an
>> =93A=94 record for any random goop (.WS is an example), however this
>> behavior is banned from gTLDs (an outcome of the SiteFinder debacle).
>=20
> A records being returned for bare TLDs *is* formally banned?
>=20
> (Oh: specifically for cctlds. Got it.)
To be clear, generic TLDs (gTLDs) can=92t have bare (dotless) TLDs (or =
wildcards). ICANN has no mechanism by which policy can be imposed on =
ccTLDs.
> Citation?
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-08-30-en
Regards,
-drc
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