[62887] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Detecting a non-existent domain
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Sep 23 18:58:08 2003
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:57:27 -0400
Cc: "Kee Hinckley" <nazgul@somewhere.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
To: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKEEJMGNAA.davids@webmaster.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tuesday, Sep 23, 2003, at 18:15 Canada/Eastern, David Schwartz wrote:
> As for 'fsck.de', a good argument can be made that this is not really
> a
> legal domain. It's a host. Checking for an SOA is a good way to tell
> if a
> domain is valid, depending upon what you mean by 'domain' and 'valid'.
Are you sure you are not confusing the terms "domain" and "zone"?
