+1 ________________________________________ From: DNSOP [dnsop-boun...@ietf.org] on behalf of Richard Barnes [r...@ipv.sx] Sent: Tuesday, 17 March 2015 17:59 To: Alec Muffett Cc: Christian Grothoff; dnsop; Mark Nottingham; Brad Hill; Jacob Appelbaum; Paul Wouters Subject: Re: [DNSOP] discussion for draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt
[snip]. > Applications that do not implement the Tor protocol > SHOULD generate an error upon the use of .onion, and SHOULD NOT > perform a DNS lookup. > >If an application does not implement tor, and is not tor aware, it >_will_ do a DNS lookup. You can't really go ask the world to stop >doing that. You need to deal with that fact. The entire point of the special use domains registry is to tell general clients how to behave with regard to special-use names. It exists precisely to tell the world the DNS names for which they should not do lookups, because they require different handling. --Richard [snip]. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
