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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!204.238.120.130!jump.net!smartdna!news.radio.cz!europa.clark.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!news.he.net!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!not-for-mail From: Hugh LaMaster <lamaster@nas.nasa.gov> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: resolv.conf/named Question Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 16:07:10 -0700 Organization: NASA Ames Research Center Lines: 20 Message-ID: <33A9BB9E.345B@nas.nasa.gov> References: <5nv4bo$lob@netaxs.com> <5o46oi$e49@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5o69ia$jok@crcnis3.unl.edu> <5o722s$ja8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <33A8A2F2.7AAE@nas.nasa.gov> <5obde7$93a@verdi.nethelp.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: win144.nas.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; U; IRIX 6.2 IP22) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43175 Steinar Haug wrote: > The resolver should *not* add "B.A" by default in this situation. > See RFC 1535 if you want to know why. In short, it's a security > issue. You are correct, and I should have remembered this, but forgot about it- thanks for reminding me. The correct behavior has obviously been incorporated in the BIND version on FreeBSD. Now that I think of it, there must be a lot of old BIND's out there. -- Hugh LaMaster, M/S 258-5, ASCII Email: hlamaster@mail.arc.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Or: lamaster@nas.nasa.gov Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 No Junkmail: USC 18 section 2701 Phone: 415/604-1056 Disclaimer: Unofficial, personal *opinion*.