[174579] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bare TLD resolutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Fri Sep 19 05:01:22 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:01:11 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <5A8EF145-85A9-4F3F-B0EE-245B3665AB47@virtualized.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
> To be clear, generic TLDs (gTLDs) can=E2=80=99t have bare (dotless) TLDs =
(or wildcards).
Wildcards are being used for the name collision gubbins.
; <<>> DiG 9.11.0pre-alpha <<>> *.prod
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51904
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;*.prod. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
*.prod. 3600 IN A 127.0.53.53
;; Query time: 66 msec
;; SERVER: ::1#53(::1)
;; WHEN: Fri Sep 19 10:00:30 BST 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 51
Tony.
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