[174527] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bare TLD resolutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Wed Sep 17 18:13:32 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:51:13 -0400."
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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 08:05:05 +1000
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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In message <21906507.2046.1410990673107.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>, Ja
y Ashworth writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Andrews" <marka@isc.org>
>
> > Search lists are for hosts and host like things. Resolver libraries
> > have different interfaces for different purposes. Single label
> > hostnames for reaching non local equipment was deliberately phase
> > out in the 1980's as it was clearly a bad concept.
>
> Yes, and we're discussing the practical reason *why* it's a bad concept.
>
> :-)
>
> My abject apologies to everyone who didn't get that I was talking about
> the *source* of the problem by synecdoche.
The source of the problem is bad search list handling. It wouldn't matter
what records are there if the search list handling was correct.
--
Mark Andrews, ISC
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org
