On Thursday, 29 September 2016, John R Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote:
> I've been telling people that if they need a fake private TLD for their >>>> local network they should use one of those since it is exceedingly unlikely >>>> ever to collide with a real DNS name. Am I right? >>>> >>> > C: why not just use .alt for this? It is clear that these should not >> hit the global DNS, and should fail (get NXD) if they do. It is >> clearly different to a ccTLD (at least some users have learnt that >> things of the form .xx are "countries" - lets not confuse them >> further). >> > > I suppose I could use jrl.alt, but I wouldn't want to use plain .alt for > fear of, if you'll pardon the phrase, name collisions. > > Regards, > John Levine, jo...@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY > Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly > > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > DNSOP@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnso > <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop> > Name collisions may occur at any delegation point - why do you think the root zone is special in this regard?
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