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I just mistyped a URL and the browser displayed a page saying "It works!"
How does DNS resolve these names? What are they?
~> curl http://bi/
<html><body><h1>It works!</h1></body></html>
~> nslookup bi
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: bi
Address: 196.2.8.205
404
It's not normally done, but it looks like the bi NIC entered a domain record for the TLD itself. When you do a PTR (Reverse DNS) record search on that IP you get the following:
Non-authoritative answer:
205.8.2.196.in-addr.arpa name = ns.nic.bi.
Normally TLD (Top-level domains) should now have A records attached to them.
The DNS records for bi are as follows:
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;bi. IN ANY
;; ANSWER SECTION:
bi. 38400 IN TXT "Check the website http://www.nic.bi"
bi. 38400 IN TXT "Top-level Domain of the Republic of Burundi"
bi. 38400 IN TXT "NIC Burundi"
bi. 38400 IN TXT "Top-level Domain of .bi"
bi. 38400 IN A 196.2.8.205
bi. 38400 IN SOA ns.nic.bi. registrar.nic.bi. 2011070201 21600 3600
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