On Oct 9, 2007, at 16:28, der Mouse wrote:

> That, I have trouble seeing as anything but catastrophically busted.
> "http://north-america"; is a perfectly good DNS label, and for a
> *server-side* DNS implementation to decide it's actually something  
> else
> is...well, Just Plain Broken.

Indeed.  :-)

[...]
> I suppose just putting up with the noise is less pain than scrapping
> Net::DNS::Nameserver in favour of a server implementation that  
> actually
> works correctly?

Well, by the wonder of Open Source I could change it and submit a  
patch[1].

The problem was a "make the resolver smarter" feature that had crept 
[2] into some of the lower-level DNS packet wrangling code.


   - ask

[1] http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29884 - the real  
change is just a few lines, the long patch is from updating tests and  
moving some support code to a more logical place.

[2] It was probably always there really.

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