[35498] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Namespace conflicts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Gifford)
Fri Mar 9 18:55:54 2001
To: Saint skullY the Dazed <skully@netlsd.org>
Cc: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Scott Gifford <sgifford@tir.com>
Date: 09 Mar 2001 18:15:25 -0500
In-Reply-To: Saint skullY the Dazed's message of "Fri, 9 Mar 2001 06:46:56 -0800"
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Saint skullY the Dazed <skully@netlsd.org> writes:
> AFAIK there is no way for you to register anything under
> ci.cityname.state.us unless you're affiliated with that city's
> government. IMO, it makes sense to do that.
Errr...If somebody already has "cityname.state.us", they implicitly
have ownership of "ci.cityname.state.us". They just have to add it to
their DNS zone files.
If it were "cityname.ci.state.us", it would be another story, but for
some strange reason that's not how it's done.
-----ScottG.
