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Re: TLDs and file extensions (Re: DNS and potential energy)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Tue Jul 1 12:54:24 2008

Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 17:53:53 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <D40E8162-56C1-4055-9911-7863A74154E6@virtualized.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, David Conrad wrote:
>
> I could maybe see a problem with ".LOCAL" due to mdns or llmnr or ".1"
> due to the risk of someone registering "127.0.0.1"

RFC 1123 section 2.1 says TLDs can't be purely numeric.

Tony.
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