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Comment by knome | Hacker News Reader

The should ignore case or have an error on unknown names. Record types just map to integers.

It's actually doing a lookup for the domain `ns`.

  dog example.com example.net AAAA A
  AAAA example.com. 1d0h00m00s 2606:2800:220:1:248:1893:25c8:1946
     A example.com. 1d0h00m00s   93.184.216.34
  AAAA example.net.  23h45m04s   2606:2800:220:1:248:1893:25c8:1946
     A example.net.  23h45m04s   93.184.216.34

Yeah, it didn't occur to me to not capitalise them, but I've seen many people stumble over this. I'll change it for the next version.

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