> Name resolution APIs and libraries SHOULD recognize "invalid" names as special and SHOULD always return immediate negative responses. Name resolution APIs SHOULD NOT send queries for "invalid" names to their configured caching DNS server(s).
It's only SHOULD, not MUST. And in fact, the glibc resolver (and I bet also other major implementations) does send such queries to the DNS server.
> And in fact, the glibc resolver (and I bet also other major implementations) does send such queries to the DNS server.
Using the glibc resolver as baseline is a bad idea, itβs broken beyond hope.
Try resolving http://-emmawatson.tumblr.com/, which is a valid URL under newer standards, and works on all other systems. The Glibc authors refuse to merge patches fixing this, because they disagree with the standard.
