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| author | Thomas Hunter II <tom@intrinsic.com> | 2019-03-15 15:01:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com> | 2019-03-18 01:37:47 +0200 |
| commit | 3b6344ce42f35e83a580ef55a19c23becccdaa07 (patch) | |
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doc: note about DNS ANY queries / RFC 8482
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/26695
Reviewed-By: Gus Caplan <me@gus.host>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Bryan English <bryan@bryanenglish.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
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diff --git a/doc/api/dns.md b/doc/api/dns.md index ca4ca4bad5..ecbd85160e 100644 --- a/doc/api/dns.md +++ b/doc/api/dns.md @@ -367,6 +367,10 @@ Here is an example of the `ret` object passed to the callback: minttl: 60 } ] ``` +DNS server operators may choose not to respond to `ANY` +queries. It may be better to call individual methods like [`dns.resolve4()`][], +[`dns.resolveMx()`][], and so on. For more details, see [RFC 8482][]. + ## dns.resolveCname(hostname, callback) <!-- YAML added: v0.3.2 @@ -1142,5 +1146,6 @@ uses. For instance, _they do not use the configuration from `/etc/hosts`_. [`util.promisify()`]: util.html#util_util_promisify_original [DNS error codes]: #dns_error_codes [Implementation considerations section]: #dns_implementation_considerations +[RFC 8482]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8482 [rfc5952]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5952#section-6 [supported `getaddrinfo` flags]: #dns_supported_getaddrinfo_flags |