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What's frustrating is that DNS is returning an address, instead of just failing, and so macos is caching that value (though it might be cloudflare doing that).
by lowbloodsugar 5y ago
What's frustrating is that DNS is returning an address, instead of just failing, and so macos is caching that value (though it might be cloudflare doing that).
- space_ghost 5y agoWildcard DNS should be a prosecutable crime, punishable by no less than 20 years of hard labor. (Edit: Probably should have made it clear that this was a joke)
- breakingcups 5y agoI don't see how wildcard DNS is related to this? Nor how it's bad?
- gokhan 5y agoWildcard DNS helps me to handle multitenancy easily. What's wrong with it?
- dylan604 5y agoWhen did congress members start posting to HN?
- adamdoran 5y agoPresumably you're referring to the practice of answering queries for nonexistent records with an A record belonging to an advertisement page? (instead of doing the right thing answering NXDOMAIN, presuming no records of another type also exist for the queried name.) dnsmasq has a really useful feature for dealing with this: --bogus-nxdomain
- LeoPanthera 5y agoTo empty the macOS DNS cache: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder