[174530] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bare TLD resolutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Sullivan)
Wed Sep 17 20:22:35 2014
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:22:22 -0400
From: Andrew Sullivan <asullivan@dyn.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 07:39:08AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote:
> You want gethostbyname, getaddrinfo to return HOST_NOT_FOUND/EAI_NONAME
I was unaware that getaddrinfo returned "NXDOMAIN", which is what I
read in the thread being talked about. Not return values from the OS
calls. I guess I missed that message.
> You want res_search() to return HOST_NOT_FOUND if a single label
> is entered and is not matched by <label>.<search-list-element>.
>
> You want res_query() and other tools that look in the DNS and are
> *not* searching to return whatever is in the DNS.
These are not even remotely the same thing as what was being proposed,
which is all I was commenting on.
A
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