On Thu Apr 25, 2002 at 11:30:27AM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
there are name server implementations (probably load balancing product) that responds with NXDOMAIN, when it should respond with NOERROR with empty reply. one example is news.bbc.co.uk.
Guilty as charged. Seems to only have been a problem since the deployment of IPv6
do you know: - name of particular implementation which have/had this bug?
"BBC Intelligent Load Balancing DNS Server"
- other examples of nameservers that behave like this? (windowsupdate.microsoft.com behaved like this in Feb 2002, but they are already fixed)
Oh, so it's not just us.
- how can we get people to fix it? (client side workaround should not be populated, just to be sure)
Name and shame seems to work ;-) I believe I have now fixed it. Please let me know if you think otherwise. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | Tel: +44 (0)1737 839676 Internet Engineering Manager | Fax: +44 (0)1737 839516 BBC Internet Services | Email: Simon.Lockhart@bbc.co.uk Kingswood Warren,Tadworth,Surrey,UK | URL: http://support.bbc.co.uk/