This issue of how applications and operating systems resolve single-word TLDs and host names was discussed on NANOG some time ago: http://www.mail-archive.com/na...@nanog.org/msg03092.html
Regards, Frank -----Original Message----- From: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Chris Thompson Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 11:56 AM To: Bind Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Unified Root - Domain Configuration Issue On Jan 19 2009, Joe Baptista wrote: >So a little more testing using firefox as an application gives us some >interesting results. Using the .TM TLD I entered http://tm/ into my >browsers. It did not work. Firefox replaced http://tm/ with >http://www.tm.com/ - which is not the web site I wanted to reach. > >However - if we qualify the TLD by adding a "." to the end, i.e. >http://tm./it does work under firefox and I get connected to the >correct site. This depends on the behavior of your local resolver, and probably on how Firefox is configured as well. http://tm/ works fine for me. >The same applies to ping. If we just use TM we get this result: > >bapti...@baptista-laptop:/tmp/test.temp$ ping tm >ping: unknown host tm > >however if we add the "." to the end of TM - it works, $ /usr/sbin/ping tm tm is alive (and yes, that really is 193.223.78.213 it is pinging, not a local tm.[some-domain]). >Like I said - not recommended - but it does work - sort of. Why does this remind me of the chap whose vanity e-mail address was "s...@tc"? (Yes, that was the complete fully expanded address.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
