>It can mean only one thing, that bar.example does not exist. How could >it be different?
My name server (running NSD) appears to disagree with you. This is real data, feel free to poke at it yourself. $ dig @sdn.iecc.com bogus.www.examp1e.com a ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> @sdn.iecc.com bogus.www.examp1e.com a ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 9914 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;bogus.www.examp1e.com. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: examp1e.com. 3600 IN SOA ns1.he.net. hostmaster.examp1e.com. 2015111219 10800 900 604800 7200 $ dig @sdn.iecc.com www.examp1e.com a ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> @sdn.iecc.com www.examp1e.com a ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9303 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.examp1e.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.examp1e.com. 3600 IN CNAME ghs.googlehosted.com. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
