[jdev] How to handle SRV lookups when the root domain is referenced

[Tony Finch]

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Matthias Wimmer wrote:
>
> The s2s component in jabberd 1.4.4 will merely ignore the "." entry. It will
> try to finde a A record for "." and as this does not resolve skip to the next
> resolved entry, if there are entries with lower priority for the same service.

That's really bad. The SRV RFC requires that you handle this as a special
case so that you don't csend junk queries to the root name servers.

Tony.
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