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		pishpash on Feb 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dangerous domain corp.com goes up for sale That doesn't make sense. When .corp fails to resolve now, .corp.com is also a deadend because O'Connor turned the domain off, so nothing should happen to any software by not trying to access .corp.com. Surely a rule can be made in the resolver code that specifically in the case of .corp failing to resolve, short-circuit it there and do not failover to internet domains.

gpm on Feb 9, 2020 [–]

Right, what you're suggesting is one implementation of what I meant by "the moral equivalent of adding these lines to /etc/hosts".

I think TimTheTinker was suggesting the much more general fix of breaking the fallback for all domain names, not just .corp domain names.

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