On 7/18/15, 3:39, "DNSOP on behalf of Ralf Weber" <[email protected]
on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
>I'm ok with .onion being
>a special name, but we should just do that by normal DNS
>mechanism. What's wrong with answering REFUSED?. Answering
>NXDomain is much harder in a DNSSEC world.

If "onion" is not delegated in the root zone, then DNS servers will answer
NXDOMAIN for it - without change.

$ dig something.onion A

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> something.onion A
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 55221
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;something.onion.               IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
something.onion.        15      IN      A       92.242.140.2

;; Query time: 14 msec
;; SERVER: 68.105.28.11#53(68.105.28.11)
;; WHEN: Sat Jul 18 02:26:34 2015
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 49

Oh, wait, oops.  My ISP's recursive name server likes to substitute
landing pages. ;)


Sigh.  This wasn't something I had thought of.

(Seriously, this isn't to make a point.  It's another wrinkle.)

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