> In message <[email protected]>, Matus UHLAR - fantomas > writes: > > It's apparently because DNS was designed to provide records that exist, > > not those that do not.
On 17.03.10 09:22, Mark Andrews wrote: > Actually it's designed to provide records that exist *and* to tell you > when they don't exist. Reserving namespace is outside of the DNS itself. That's just what I've meant. > > You can also register a domain and not provide any records for it (except > > SOA and NS), which would be best in current situation imho. > > > > However Microsoft decided to provide A records for hotmeil.com (and > > www.hotmeil.com too), so they don't want people to fix their typos, but > > are doing it themselves instead. > > They are kind of forced to these days due to the abuse of the DNS by ISP's. kind of, but I wouldn't abuse DNS just because others do. I hope that DNSSEC will clean the stuff a bit. not to the OP's question: Is there currently possibility to ignore this kind of errors, kind of marking them as "we know"? > > Yes, there could be way to define a domain that has A record but does not > > provide mail service. Unluckily, in case of MX nonexistance the A is used > > (as implicit zero-priority MX). > > Which is why "MX 0 ." is needed. We have it for SRV "SRV 0 0 ." > means there is no service. was this at least proposed at all? Is this supported by any mail servers? -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [email protected] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. Linux - It's now safe to turn on your computer. Linux - Teraz mozete pocitac bez obav zapnut. _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
