[142175] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Kell)
Sun Jun 19 21:36:25 2011
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:36:01 -0400
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <27712.1308533070@nsa.vix.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 6/19/2011 9:24 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
> i think we have to just discourage lookups of single-token names, universally.
Not to mention the folks of the Redmond persuasion with their
additionally ambiguous \\hostname single names.
(In the absence of a configured search domain, Windows won't even try
DNS for a single name through it's own resolver libraries; although
nslookup will).
Jeff
