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Sorry - you’re right. I misread. But I still think failing over from corp to corp.com is a bug, not a feature.

• gpm 7y ago
  > But I still think failing over from corp to corp.com is a bug, not a feature. I think it was a mistake, but you probably can't fix it now. Too many random pieces of code are going to be relying on it.
  • pishpash 7y ago
    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 7y ago
      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.