Re: note 36005 added to function.gethostbyname

On Monday 22 September 2003 17:02, M@rn2.php.net, Hoskison@rn2.php.net wrote: > As of very recently, Verisign have abused their market position and have > entered a wildcard A RR in the .com and .net zone files. This means that > any domain that doesn't exist within the zone files will *always* resolve > to 64.94.110.11 and not return NXDOMAIN as required by the RFCs. Maybe, when verisign doesn't change that ipaddress, we can setup a check that will prevent the bogus domains to appear as 64.94.110.11 for all lookup functions... unless verisign stops this 'service' soon, we don't need this.. - Vincent > > ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> not_a_real_domain.com > ;; global options: printcmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 22357 > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 0 > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;not_a_real_domain.com. IN A > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > not_a_real_domain.com. 900 IN A 64.94.110.11 > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > com. 172800 IN NS a.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS b.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS c.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS d.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS e.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS f.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS g.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS h.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS i.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS j.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS k.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS l.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS m.gtld-servers.net. > > Bear this in mind if you're checking for the existance of a domain name.