To:
Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
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dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
Date:
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:32:00 -0800
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Your message of "Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:00:09 EST." <5.2.0.9.2.20030311195016.0280c948@mail.amaranth.net>
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Subject:
Re: "local" zones
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>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com> writes:
>> 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.
Daniel> How much damage would be caused by adding NS glue records to the
Daniel> root zone
Daniel> for .local pointing at 127.0.0.1? Sites which misconfigure and
Daniel> allow
Daniel> lookups for .local to leak out will be told to go ask themselves.
A very good idea.
It might be funny if it confused some "personal firewall".
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] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON |net architect[
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