In message <20150508194223.55320.qm...@ary.lan>, "John Levine" writes: > >The justification for removing home/corp/mail primarily appears to be "becau > se they showed up > >'a lot' at the root servers". Without characterizing this a bit better, it s > eems to me it would > >be trivial to set up situations to move pretty much any undelegated name to > the "Special Names" > >registry -- just fire up a few thousand zombies to query names in the TLD yo > u want removed > >using random source addresses. > > Hmmn. Is this a serious accusation, or is this just channelling the > usual domainers whinging about their business plans? > > Does anyone seriously argue that those domains aren't widely used in > private networks, and that nominally private DNS names leak all the > time? > > R's, > John
I'm not, but name leaking is different to name use. I suspect "mail" ends up being qualified whereas "home" and "corp" are actually used as private tlds. This difference requires different handling. -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
