Re: Domain name strangeness
From: Bryan Packer (bryanp_at_visi.com)
Date: 08/19/03
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:30:14 -0500
Stephen wrote:
> Sorry everyone - false alarm.
>
> The problem was actually due to my use of home.net as part of my
> machine name. I found a post from someone else who had the same
> problem in the last month, which also mentioned domainspa.com, so I
> can only assume something has changed in that hostnames registration.
> I had been running with the incorrect name for at least a year without
> a problem. Mozilla Firebird is totally innocent of course, it's just
> an unfortunate cooincidence it happened to be the last thing I
> installed before noticing the problem. Much thanks to everyone who
> offered their advice.
It looks like the folks at domainspa.com did some fun wildcard stuff with the
home.net domain so that whatever name you query in that domain comes back as
ds1.domainspa.com. When a machine does a DNS query, if it doesn't get a match on
the name as typed, it appends it's own domain name and retries the query unless
the name was fully qualified with a "." at the very end. So if your host name is
xxx.home.net and you query xbvsfsrtd and it gets no answer, it then tries
xbvsfsrtd.home.net.
I suspect the guys at domainspa.com are capitalizing on home users propensity to
use the "home.net" as a domain name to get a little free advertising. Kinda
clever actually.
bryan
-- If Bill Gates had a dollar for every windows machine that crashed... oh wait, he does.
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