[174520] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bare TLD resolutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Sep 17 17:49:13 2014
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:48:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140917211336.GT89960@dyn.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Sullivan" <asullivan@dyn.com>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 04:57:52PM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > No, I was confusing you for someone who understood -- as everyone else
> > here seems to have -- that I meant "querying for an A, AAAA, or MX record".
>
> You want to return NXDOMAIN for a name only when the QTYPE is A, AAAA,
> or MX, and not everything else? Presumably you don't want to do
> negative caching?
I want to return NXDOMAIN *because there is no record of that type at that
node*.
That was the underlying point here; I thought that was pretty clear.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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