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Bare TLD resolutions
- Subject: Bare TLD resolutions
- From: marka at isc.org (Mark Andrews)
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 08:05:05 +1000
- In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:51:13 -0400." <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
In message <21906507.2046.1410990673107.JavaMail.root at benjamin.baylink.com>, Ja
y Ashworth writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Andrews" <marka at isc.org>
>
> > Search lists are for hosts and host like things. Resolver libraries
> > have different interfaces for different purposes. Single label
> > hostnames for reaching non local equipment was deliberately phase
> > out in the 1980's as it was clearly a bad concept.
>
> Yes, and we're discussing the practical reason *why* it's a bad concept.
>
> :-)
>
> My abject apologies to everyone who didn't get that I was talking about
> the *source* of the problem by synecdoche.
The source of the problem is bad search list handling. It wouldn't matter
what records are there if the search list handling was correct.
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