Fake TLD's in the hint file

[Cricket Liu]

> I am trying to specify a fake Top Level Domain in
> my root cache file.  My understanding was that
> something like the following should work:
> 
> .fakeTLD 99999       NS NS1.myrealdomain.com.
> NS1.myrealdomain.com. 99999 IN A 10.10.10.10
> 
> Assuming, of course, that NS1.myrealdomain.com is
> set up as a master for .fakeTLD.
> 
> In my tests I can't get this to work.  The '.'
> servers (root-servers.net) always seem to override
> my more specific hint for the .fakeTLD domain.
> 
> Any ideas?

Yeah, your understanding was wrong.  Anything in the
root hints file besides NS records for the root zone and
the A records for the corresponding name servers will
be ignored.

cricket

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