Hi Joe, On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM Joe Abley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Donald, > > On 5 Feb 2025, at 22:10, Donald Eastlake <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Maybe I'm confused but what is wrong with any domain name ending > > in the TLD "invalid." if you want a domain name that is guaranteed > > not to exist? (RFC 2606/6761) > > I guess that also works. I think it's semantically ugly
I don't see that. "semantic" refers to meaning. If I hadn't read this thread and heard that "sink.arpa" was a special use domain name, I would guess it had something to do with being a sinkhole / blackhole. Maybe that if you send a query with that name, a server should just absorb it and not respond like a sinkhole would or something. "invalid" certainly isn't perfect. Maybe it should have been "non-existent" or something. But I think it is a lot clearer semantically than "sink.arpa". > and I think protocol elements that are DNS names belong in the ARPA > domain and not elsewhere, but these are not technical or practical > problems. That's fine for the future but given that there is a domain name that has been specified for more than a quarter of a century and does what you want, I don't see a need to specify a new one. Thanks, Donald =============================== Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1-508-333-2270 (cell) 2386 Panoramic Circle, Apopka, FL 32703 USA [email protected] > Joe _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
