Re: search and ndots support in bind utilities

2019-09-26 Thread Mark Andrews
Partially qualified names are inherently unsafe. Depending on applying the search list after trying the name as fully qualified is just plain dangerous as it depends on a NXDOMAIN response from a namespace not under your control to reach the service you are after. TLDs get added all the time. On

search and ndots support in bind utilities

2019-09-26 Thread Petr Mensik
Hello, I got bug report [1] about different behavior of nslookup in 9.11 version compared to old 9.9 version. At first I thought this issue should be closed right away. But when I digged into changes in BIND, I could not find any reason for given change. It seems to me the effect was not desired.