On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:29:31PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:53:05PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > [snip] > > > When it first occurred to someone that this sort of a trick could be > > > played on people to hijack domains, an RFC came out specifying that > > > hostname resolvers should NOT append the local TLD to the requested name > > > when trying to resolve it. Sounds like you have a broken system. > > > > Oh, you mean they can't do as Mozilla, IE, and a lot of other > > crap^H^H^H^Hbrowsers do? > > > > I *seriously* doubt the system resolv libraries are doing such weirdness... > [snip] > > I have only ever seen browsers do this kind of nonsense. I have never seen > nslookup, dig, or host, attempt such lame lookup methods before. It > appears to me to be yet another one of the sugar-it-down-for-dummies > features that found its way into browsers, so that you can type in the URL > box "microsoft" and it will deduce that you really meant > "www.microsoft.com". (After all, don't all domains start with www and end > with .com? </sarcasm>)
I believe pump created resolv.conf's with ".org" in them for a while... it's fixed now. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
