Bare TLD resolutions

Fri Sep 19 09:01:11 UTC 2014

David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:

> To be clear, generic TLDs (gTLDs) can’t have bare (dotless) TLDs (or wildcards).

Wildcards are being used for the name collision gubbins.

; <<>> DiG 9.11.0pre-alpha <<>> *.prod
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51904
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;*.prod.                                IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
*.prod.                 3600    IN      A       127.0.53.53

;; Query time: 66 msec
;; SERVER: ::1#53(::1)
;; WHEN: Fri Sep 19 10:00:30 BST 2014
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 51

Tony.
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