Re: Clarification on wildcard falls into glue records

2012-05-15 Thread SM
At 07:08 15-05-2012, Alexander Gurvitz wrote: From wikipedia: To quote RFC 1912, "A common mistake is thinking that a wildcard Using Wikipedia to quote RFC 1912 is odd ... Regards, -sm ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-u

Re: Clarification on wildcard falls into glue records

2012-05-15 Thread Tony Finch
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Re: Clarification on wildcard falls into glue records

2012-05-15 Thread Sam Wilson
In article , Tony Finch wrote: > Sam Wilson wrote: > > > > Is a name on the RHS of an RR regarded as existing enough to prevent > > wildcard lookup? > > No, only RR owner names. > > > In this I would have expected the NS lookup to be followed by an A > > lookup for abc.a.example.com which wou

Re: Clarification on wildcard falls into glue records

2012-05-15 Thread Tony Finch
Sam Wilson wrote: > > Is a name on the RHS of an RR regarded as existing enough to prevent > wildcard lookup? No, only RR owner names. > In this I would have expected the NS lookup to be followed by an A > lookup for abc.a.example.com which would match the wildcard, assuming no > other records m

Re: Clarification on wildcard falls into glue records

2012-05-15 Thread Sam Wilson
In article , Alexander Gurvitz wrote: > You should NOT get A records. Wildcard works only for hostnames > that have NO records of ANY type. Excuse me while I delirk, but this is interesting. Is a name on the RHS of an RR regarded as existing enough to prevent wildcard lookup? In this I woul

Re: Clarification on wildcard falls into glue records

2012-05-15 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
You should NOT get A records. Wildcard works only for hostnames that have NO records of ANY type. >From wikipedia: To quote RFC 1912, "A common mistake is thinking that a wildcard MX for a zone will apply to all hosts in the zone. A wildcard MX will apply only to names in the zone which aren't l

Clarification on wildcard falls into glue records

2012-05-14 Thread rams
Hi, I have NS record points a record [A/] which is falls into wildcard . But when I query for NS record against bind, we are not getting these records as glue records. ex: *.a.example.com A 1.1.1.1 example.com. NS abc.a.example.com. Querying example.com with any or ns. don't we get glue recor