[174521] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bare TLD resolutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Sep 17 17:52:50 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:51:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140917213908.9A26B1FADC1F@rock.dv.isc.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Andrews" <marka@isc.org>
> Search lists are for hosts and host like things. Resolver libraries
> have different interfaces for different purposes. Single label
> hostnames for reaching non local equipment was deliberately phase
> out in the 1980's as it was clearly a bad concept.
Yes, and we're discussing the practical reason *why* it's a bad concept.
:-)
My abject apologies to everyone who didn't get that I was talking about
the *source* of the problem by synecdoche.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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