On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 06:46:30PM +0000, mick wrote:
On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 18:32:05 +0000 Chris Green cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:
On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 05:02:27PM +0000, Mark Rogers wrote:
On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 16:33, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
Yes, but 'host debian.pool.ntp.org' shouldn't just return nothing should it?
To my knowledge there's no requirement that higher level domains should resolve. (For example, that would imply that you should be able to resolve "org" before you can resolve "ntp.org".)
No, I agree, but it shouldn't return 'nothing' should it? Non-existent domains return NXDOMAIN.
The domain is not non existent - the A record is empty.
OK, but the 'successful' lookup with no result could confuse some software couldn't it? dig shows 'NOERROR', host returns nothing, nslookup says "*** Can't find debian.pool.ntp.org: No answer", it's not very consistent. :-)