[174525] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bare TLD resolutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Sep 17 18:07:23 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:01:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <541A0253.7020608@dougbarton.us>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Barton" <dougb@dougbarton.us>
> > 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.
>
> But that's not what NXDOMAIN means. :) You get an NXDOMAIN response
> when there is no label at that point in the tree, period. In the case
> you specify you get the combination of NOANSWER + NOERROR if there is no
> address record, but there are other records (like there are at a zone
> apex).
D'oh. Yes; I overspecified. Damn.
> hth,
It did; thanks.
Well, except for John, but he thinks I'm an idiot dilettante anyway. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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