[7192] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS contamination
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Thu Jan 23 19:51:28 1997
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Jan 1997 19:37:46 EST."
<199701240037.TAA12414@mercury.int.sprintlink.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:47:40 -0800
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> As I said, it works fine for me. When no A record for a nameserver is
> available, named just issues a proper request for it to whatever server
> might now about it. Here's the patch:
There are pathological cases that this patch turns into DNS black holes.