To:
dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Date:
Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:00:09 -0500
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<a05200f01ba94237c6217@[10.0.1.4]>
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Subject:
Re: "local" zones
At 06:37 PM 3/11/2003, Brad Knowles wrote: >At 1:14 PM +0900 2003/03/11, itojun@iijlab.net wrote: > >>>While .local TLD has yet defined officially, there are substantial >>>queries to the Root DNS Servers as of writing. About 1/4 to 1/2% of the >>>traffic sent to the Root DNS Servers are related to the .local zone. >>>Therefore, while it is not formally defined, it is suggested that IANA >>>delegates .local TLD to an organization. >> >> i guess it's "about 1/4 to 1/2", not 0.5%. > > Considering that .local is used with Rendezvous, multicast DNS, > etc..., this would probably be a good idea. Or maybe a bad idea, if it > causes things to break. Dunno. This needs more work. How much damage would be caused by adding NS glue records to the root zone for .local pointing at 127.0.0.1? Sites which misconfigure and allow lookups for .local to leak out will be told to go ask themselves. #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.