Subject: Re: What *are* they smoking? Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 03:13:49AM +0200 
Quoting Tomas Lund ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Chris Adams wrote:
> 
> > It appears that the most reliable way to detect a wildcard response for
> > 'somedomain.tld' is to query for '*.tld'; if the results match, then
> > 'somedomain.tld' doesn't really exist.
> 
> Just make up a number of fake domains and resolve them. If they return the
> same answer, thats the answer to change back into NXDOMAIN.

More precise: 

dig @ns.nic.nu. '*.nu' ANY

The quotes mean that the string '*.nu' will be passed straight to
the name server.
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