[105604] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas L. Byrnes)
Fri Jun 27 15:48:27 2008
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:48:08 -0700
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.10.0806272020050.27043@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb@byrneit.net>
To: "Tony Finch" <dot@dotat.at>,
"Jon Kibler" <Jon.Kibler@aset.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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If they assign .local, they will break the default for AD, especially
SBS, Apple Rendezvous, anything using mDNS/Zeroconf, and a lot of other
"local significance only" uses of DNS, or, which is more likely, the
domains in .local will find themselves unresolvable from a very large
portion of the Internet.
.local should be reserved.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Finch [mailto:dot@dotat.at]=20
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 12:21 PM
> To: Jon Kibler
> Cc: NANOG list
> Subject: Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
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> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Jon Kibler wrote:
> >
> > Well, I guess this shoots in the foot Microsoft's name server best=20
> > practices of setting up your AD domain as foo.LOCAL, using=20
> the logic=20
> > that .LOCAL is safe because it cannot be resolved by the=20
> root name servers.
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> .local is also used by MDNS. (Nice interop problem there.)
>=20
> Tony.
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