Subject: Re: DNS question
To: None <mason@primenet.com.au>
From: Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>
List: current-users
Date: 02/09/1998 00:23:42
> Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net> typed:
> :Greywolf wrote:
> :> Dustin Sallings sez:
> :> /* If you cannot resolve starwolf.com, you cannot resolve anything
> :>  under * starwolf.com.  I think you may be a little confused as to what

[...]

> Why would you need to resolve an A record for `starwolf.com'?  That's 
> entirely irrelevant to being able to resolve records for and under
> `starwolf.com'.  You need to be able to resolve NS records for
> `starwolf.com' via the glue in the `com' root servers and they are doing
> that fine.  Anyway, this is running far away from current-users subjects
> (not that it started out as one).

	I didn't say if you cannot resolve an *A* record for starwolf.com, I
said if you can't resolve it at all.  Just like if you can't resolve com, you
can't resolve starwolf.com.  I've used DNS enough to know how it works.

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