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Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Fri Jun 27 15:21:08 2008

Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:20:59 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Jon Kibler <Jon.Kibler@aset.com>
In-Reply-To: <4864B0F0.4070203@aset.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Jon Kibler wrote:
>
> Well, I guess this shoots in the foot Microsoft's name server best
> practices of setting up your AD domain as foo.LOCAL, using the logic
> that .LOCAL is safe because it cannot be resolved by the root name servers.

.local is also used by MDNS. (Nice interop problem there.)

Tony.
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