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Bare TLD resolutions
- Subject: Bare TLD resolutions
- From: owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:20:11 -0700
- In-reply-to: <CAAAwwbWwHDGhLocOm47gRq3Md3=SNs667jmobXwz6wz1wk0XZQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sep 17, 2014, at 6:01 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>
>> The latter would seem to be avoidable by making sure that *DNS resolution
>> of bare TLDs always returns NXDOMAIN*.
> [snip]
>
> Not NXDOMAIN. When TLD. is looked up, they should always return NOERROR.
Wellâ?¦ A TLD which does not exist should return NXDOMAIN. For example, if I do a query for .NONEXISTANTTLD.,
then I should get NXDOMAINâ?¦
Owens-MacBook-Pro:Downloads owendelong$ dig NONEXISTANTTLD.
; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> NONEXISTANTTLD.
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 64254
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;NONEXISTANTTLD. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 3600 IN SOA a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2014091701 1800 900 604800 86400
But for any TLD which exists, yes.
Owen