NETWORK ISSUES

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Fri Mar 15 17:20:09 UTC 2002


Fred Viles wrote:

> phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote in <a6qve9$3di at pub3.rc.vix.com>:
>
> >...
> >As an extra bonus you can create the zone "doubleclick.net" and
> >fill with zero 'A' records, this saves even more time for you and
> >your colleges.
>
> I'm very interested in this, could you expand on it?  By "fill with
> zero 'A' records", do you mean:
>
> * IN A 0.0.0.0
>
> ?  Does this cause browsers to silently ignore references?
>
> I tried an earlier suggestion to return an authoritative "no such
> name" response, but it just causes IE and Netscape to pop up an error
> dialog for each reference - clearly not a good solution.

You could always point the wildcard at one of your own web servers,
which could serve up any empty page...


- Kevin




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