On 19/12/17 13:57, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > There are no safe, free names to use for an internal network. On the one > hand, RFC 8244 makes a decent argument that this is a good thing, > because it guarantees that every hostname is globally unique (so if I > copy/paste a URL to you, it goes the same place on your machine as it > did mine). On the other hand, I hate the idea of paying some bureaucrat > to be able to use my own network.
Which was why I liked Demon as my ISP. They had a customer domain and assigned you a name on it. Whether you used it as a host or domain name was up to you. Most ISPs now assume you are a client and don't give you proper internet :-( Cheers, Wol
