Re: Resolve alternative TLD
Re: Resolve alternative TLD
- Subject: Re: Resolve alternative TLD
- From: Diederik Meijer | Ten Horses <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:07:03 +0200
Thanks, prefixing my one just reports 'server cannot be found'...
Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone
> Op 3 jul. 2014 om 18:54 heeft Paul Scott <email@hidden> het volgende geschreven:
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> This is a known problem on Safari for Mac, and presumably for iOS. I reported it, and my bug report was closed as a duplicate of radar:10252476. We have a corporate TLD that does not resolve in safari, unless you prefix it with http:// so that Safari doesn’t treat it as a search term.
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> Paul
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>> On Jul 3, 2014, at 9:22 AM, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Jul 3, 2014, at 6:52 AM, Diederik Meijer | Ten Horses <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> The issue being that the TLD (think for example: domain.law, with law being the TLD) is accessible through a DNS server, but since the TLD is not officially registered with ICANN, standard browsers do not resolve the domain into an IP address. Using a standard UIWebView does not work. But, I repeat, the server is up and running and the domain is accessible through the network.
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>> Really? I’m not aware of anything built into browsers that restricts them to a fixed set of “official” TLDs. As far as I know, the client simply hands off _any_ hostname for DNS lookup, which will query the configured DNS server(s).
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>> Are you 100% sure that the DNS is configured correctly? For example, the name server (or some parent of it) needs to have a custom entry for “.law”, otherwise it will end up querying upstream for it, and the upstream (ISP) name servers won’t know about that TLD.
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>> Also, are you 100% sure that the iOS device is configured to access the DNS server that knows about your custom domain? It’s probably getting the name server IP addresses via DHCP.
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>> —Jens
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>> PS: This question really belongs on the macnetworkprog mailing list. There are Apple networking gurus hanging out there who don’t monitor cocoa-dev.
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> Paul Scott
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