[62893] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Detecting a non-existent domain
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Tue Sep 23 19:45:28 2003
In-Reply-To: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKKEJFGNAA.davids@webmaster.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:42:44 -0400
To: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>
Cc: "Dominic J. Eidson" <sauron@the-infinite.org>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 2:46 PM -0700 9/23/03, David Schwartz wrote:
> He asked for the "optimal way" "to see if a given host truly
>exists" and
>you told him how to confirm or deny the "existance of a domain". He asked
>about hosts, you answered about domains.
In fairness I was ambiguous. Although Verisign ought to be
describing all of these techniques. But depending on the
circumstances I primarily need to check for A records or MX and A
records.
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