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Re: Bare TLD resolutions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Sep 17 17:59:45 2014

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:48:58 -0400."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:56:14 -0400
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

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On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:48:58 -0400, Jay Ashworth said:

> I want to return NXDOMAIN *because there is no record of that type at that
> node*.

NXDOMAIN means "There are no records of *any* type at that node".

NOERROR means "There are no records of *that* type at that node (but the
node exists and there may be records of other types if you ask for them)".

The distinction is important.


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