[105731] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Regnauld)
Mon Jun 30 09:16:11 2008
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:15:57 +0200
From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@catpipe.net>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <3BB28A67-1837-4374-A5F5-574EB05853E2@virtualized.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
David Conrad (drc) writes:
>
> 1) The new gTLD stuff hasn't gotten as far as the point where the testing
> of IDN stuff started.
Mhh, ok :)
> 2) ICANN (or rather, the technical side of ICANN staff) has thought about
> this and there is a 'technical evaluation' phase of the application
> evaluation
Fair enough.
> 3) We've already run into the 'private TLD' thing: lots of global companies
> (apparently) have internal domains organized on regional/continental
> boundaries. When '.asia' was put into the root, the Internet did not break.
>
>> The other way around. And if I ping 'dk', my resolver
>> stops after "catpipe.net" and my other private domain.
>> It doesn't try "dk.", even though dk. has an A record
>> associated with it. I get NXDOMAIN.
>
> Your resolver appears to be broken. Works for me:
dig doesn't use the resolver the same way other applications do.
Try "ping dk" vs "ping dk.", or "telnet dk" vs. telnet "dk."
Of course, depends on the OS -- but at least on a few BSDs (OS X, FreeBSD),
Linuxes (Debian, Ubuntu), it behaves the same way.
