On Thu Apr 25, 2002 at 11:30:27AM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
>       there are name server implementations (probably load balancing product)
>       that responds with NXDOMAIN, when it should respond with NOERROR with
>       empty reply.  one example is news.bbc.co.uk.  

Guilty as charged. Seems to only have been a problem since the deployment
of IPv6

>       do you know:
>       - name of particular implementation which have/had this bug?

"BBC Intelligent Load Balancing DNS Server"

>       - other examples of nameservers that behave like this?
>         (windowsupdate.microsoft.com behaved like this in Feb 2002, but
>         they are already fixed)

Oh, so it's not just us.

>       - how can we get people to fix it?  (client side workaround should
>         not be populated, just to be sure)

Name and shame seems to work ;-) I believe I have now fixed it. Please let me
know if you think otherwise.

Simon
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