[dns-operations] systemd resolved ignores specified root

Dave Lawrence tale at dd.org
Wed Sep 16 18:14:38 UTC 2020


Peter van Dijk writes:
>     Apparently the trailing dot "thing" never hits the wire? 
> That is correct. The DNS protocol has no concept of a trailing dot being
> present or not.

Or to put it another way, language is tricky and I'd say that DNS on
the wire always has a trailing dot and has no concept of relative
names within the wire protocol.

On this point, it just has no idea whether the original input that
started off the lookup had the trailing dot.




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