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Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

  • From: Florian Weimer
  • Date: Mon Nov 05 02:02:39 2007 
* Sean Donelan:

> I just wish the IETF would acknowledge this and go ahead and define a
> DNS bit for artificial DNS answers for all these "address correction"
> and "domain parking" and "domain tasting" people to use for their keen
> "Web 2.0" ideas.
>
> And for all the other non-Web protocols which get confused, can treat
> that artificially generated crap/answers like NXDOMAIN.

It's not that simple, you need three states: original, rewritten NODATA,
and rewritten NXDOMAIN.  Perhaps a general "original RCODE" is
necessary; I haven't checked this.