DNS ROOT understanding

[Barry Margolin]

In article <cnjlfq$kb5$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:

> Jim Reid wrote:
> 
> >>>>>>"Jonathan" == Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard at Tesco.NET> 
> >>>>>>writes:
> >>>>>>            
> >>>>>>
> >
> >    JR> The circumstances you describe are not those of a well behaved
> >    JR> DNS setup.
> >
> >    Jonathan> Also wrong. The DNS setup described is behaving exactly
> >    Jonathan> as it should.
> >
> >No it isn't. It's broken. The clients are asking for a non-existent
> >name in a bogus top-level domain. That by definition cannot be a well
> >behaved DNS setup.
> >
> Well, Jim, I don't know how you make DNS *clients* "behave", according 
> to whatever definition you're using. Do you post an overseer at 
> everyone's PC to stop them from typing "nslookup localhost.localdomain" 
> at the command-line?

Users generally can't type commands like that frequently enough to cause 
any kind of performance impact.  If you're getting so many queries for 
nonexistent TLDs that you need to do something, it's almost certainly 
coming from an application in a loop.

So you turn on query logging, see where these weird queries are coming 
from, and tell the user of that system to fix/stop the application.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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