It occurs to me that there's a difference between local and localhost on the one hand and onion on the other. With local and localhost, you still something like an A or AAAA record with an an IP address that you can use in the normal way to open a connection.
With onion you get a rather different thing that looks like an open TCP connection, a couple of levels up the protocol stack. So if the theory is that these special names are doing a protocol switch, it's not one switch, it's potentially a switch per name. I suppose you could say there's yet another switch for test, example, and invalid that returns failure at whatever level of the stack you try. I'm not sure if that makes the discussion notably more complicated but it certainly doesn't make it any simpler. R's, John _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
