To:
"Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
CC:
Akira Kato <kato@wide.ad.jp>, dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Simon Coffey <sicoffey@yahoo.com>
Date:
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:34:33 +0000
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Subject:
Re: "local" zones
Eric A. Hall wrote: >This draft is admirable for its objective, but is missing the single >largest piece of good advice, which is to use real friggin domain names >from delegated space instead of making up your own. Could that be added? >Something to the affect of ~"if you want a locally resolvable, private >domain, use local.<company>.<your-isp> so that leakage is limited, but so >that the namespace authority model continues to function." > > I would accept that delegating from a registered domain is a purer solution and yes that should be mentioned in any draft on the subject (although I figure you would rather not see any draft at all). I still believe that folks will want to use an alternative, if only because "intranet.acme.pri" is shorter and easier to manage than "intranet.local.acme.co.uk". Simon #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.