What *are* they smoking?

Tomas Lund tlund at swip.net
Tue Sep 16 01:13:49 UTC 2003


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.

//tlund



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