[dns-operations] Hearing first complains about failing internal resolving due to .prod TLD

Andrew Sullivan ajs at anvilwalrusden.com
Fri Sep 12 06:02:48 UTC 2014


On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 02:35:37PM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 
> "WARNING: The partially qualified name '%s' resulted in a search
> list match.  The use of partially qualified names is a unsafe
> practice.  Fix your configuration to use the fully qualified name
> '%s'."
> 
> Linux developers do stuff like this for deprecated system calls
> where the user has zero control.  Here the user can correct the
> configuration / behaviour.

With respect, do you think there is a difference between the responses
of Linux kernel (or kernel module) developers and their response to
syslog entries, and the responses of random name server operators
around the Internet?  I can think of possibly one or two relevant
considerations.  

Best regards,

A

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Andrew Sullivan
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