Change in res_nsearch behaviour?

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi,

G Muthukumar:
> But what happens if the 'as is' query failed (for e.g.: NO SUCH HOST**).
> Because of the 'return' statement, the error too will be returned to the 
> caller without doing the search (whereas it is expected to do the search 
> in the current/parent domains). 
> 
Domain names with dots inside are supposed to be fully qualified, these days.

That's a feature.

As an example, you might want to send email to foo.com. You mistype and
use fooo.com. Your local domain, bar.com, has a wildcard MX. Your email
thus, effectively, gets delivered to "fooo.com.bar.com" instead of being
rejected immediately.

The search feature was a mistake, thus it's off by default. You can still
use the ndots option if you really need it.


That's my understanding. Corrections are of course welcome.

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