[174529] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bare TLD resolutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Wed Sep 17 19:35:51 2014
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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 08:35:40 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <41935.1410990974@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
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Doug Barton wrote:
> 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).
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> NXDOMAIN means "There are no records of *any* type at that node".
Not.
Though your misunderstanding is common, NXDOMAIN means "no
such node exist", while some node may exist without having any
data, as is specified in rfc1034:
Each node and leaf on the
tree corresponds to a resource set (which may be empty).
Masataka Ohta
