On Jan 28, 2014, at 9:54 PM, John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote: >> I believe that with the considerable sleuthing abilities of the IETF >> community, we ought to be able to take this initial set of observed data >> and treat it as a call to action for the IETF community, for someone to >> step forward and tell us *why* those names are in use, are leaking out >> to the root name servers, and what the intended use is for these names. > > Um, we already know. They're used to name things on private networks, > often behind a NAT, and they leak out for random not particularly > interesting reasons, such as people taking their laptops on trips > which then look for the printer that lives on their office LAN when > they're connected to the wifi at a coffee shop.
All that, plus "on their corporate network, there are search lists that allow shortened names; when they take their laptop off that network, they try to type in the shortened name". --Paul Hoffman _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
