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Re: Detecting a non-existent domain

  • From: Joe Abley
  • Date: Tue Sep 23 19:00:13 2003

On Tuesday, Sep 23, 2003, at 18:15 Canada/Eastern, David Schwartz wrote:

As for 'fsck.de', a good argument can be made that this is not really a
legal domain. It's a host. Checking for an SOA is a good way to tell if a
domain is valid, depending upon what you mean by 'domain' and 'valid'.
Are you sure you are not confusing the terms "domain" and "zone"?