On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 08:43:51PM -0500,
 Donald Eastlake <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 28 lines which said:

> "invalid" certainly isn't perfect. Maybe it should have been
> "non-existent" or something.

Despite what RFC 6761 says, many resolvers will not return NXDOMAIN
for names under .invalid. Testing with 250 RIPE Atlas probes, we see
many resolvers returning dummy data:

% blaeu-resolve --requested 250 --type SOA invalid
[ERROR: NXDOMAIN] : 182 occurrences 
[localhost. nobody.invalid. 1 3600 1200 604800 10800] : 59 occurrences 
[ERROR: SERVFAIL] : 3 occurrences 
[localhost. nobody.invalid. 1 600 1200 604800 10800] : 1 occurrences 
Test #86858822 done at 2025-02-11T13:47:26Z

So, you cannot rely on .invalid to guarantee the name does not exist.

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