[142164] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Sun Jun 19 20:09:11 2011
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:36:28 GMT."
<g339j59ywz.fsf@nsa.vix.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:08:45 +1000
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, tech@dk-hostmaster.dk
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <g339j59ywz.fsf@nsa.vix.com>, Paul Vixie writes:
> Adam Atkinson <ghira@mistral.co.uk> writes:
>
> > It was a very long time ago, but I seem to recall being shown http://dk,
> > the home page of Denmark, some time in the mid 90s.
> >
> > Must I be recalling incorrectly?
>
> no you need not must be. it would work as long as no dk.this or dk.that
> would be found first in a search list containing 'this' and 'that', where
> the default search list is normally the parent domain name of your own
> hostname (so for me on six.vix.com the search list would be vix.com and
> so as long as dk.vix.com did not exist then http://dk/ would reach "dk.")
> --
> Paul Vixie
> KI6YSY
DK should NOT be doing this. DK is *not* a hierarchical host name
and the address record should not exist, RFC 897. The Internet
stopped using simple host names in the early '80s. In addition to
that it is a security issue similar to that described in RFC 1535.
Mark
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