[174495] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scotland ccTLD?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Wed Sep 17 10:32:51 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <877g12gwlv.fsf@pc8.berlin.quux.de>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 07:32:38 -0700
To: Jens Link <lists@quux.de>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sep 17, 2014, at 7:17 AM, Jens Link <lists@quux.de> wrote:
> Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> writes:
>> On Sep 16, 2014, at 8:55 AM, Majdi S. Abbas <msa@latt.net> wrote:
>>> su is not available.
>> I think it is now, since the break up of the Soviet Union.
No it is not.
> A friend told me that .su domains are quite common in windows
> environments after the admins discovered that .local is not a good
> choice. ;-)
That would be an *exceptionally* bad idea. If queries to those domains =
leaked out of the local environment (which, of course, _never_ happens), =
they could be resolved simply by purchasing the .SU domain and then =
setting up name servers with a wildcard to return an address for a =
honeypot. The bad guys could then just sit and wait (and then profit). =
This is a form of =91name collision=92 which is all the rage these days =
(see =
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/name-collision-2013-12-06-en).
Regards,
-drc
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