[66230] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: example.com/net/org DNS records
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colm MacCarthaigh)
Mon Jan 5 04:25:44 2004
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 09:25:05 +0000
From: Colm MacCarthaigh <colm@stdlib.net>
To: nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu
Reply-To: colm@stdlib.net
In-Reply-To: <20040105021339.GA12123@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:13:39PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> I don't think I'm going out on a limb to suggest that names like
> example.com should be used by _everybody_ in documentation examples,
> least they pick something that might actually be used in the future.
>
> To wit, the point is not that they "should not be used by anyone",
> as you suggest, but rather, like RFC 1918 space, should be used by
> everyone for documentation, example configurations, and the like to
> insure they never conflict with a real service.
If you are going to insist on being really pedantic, get it right :)
RFC1918 space is reserved for private use, not for documentation and
example configurations. That's what 192.0.2.0/24 is for, see RFC3330.
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