On 11 Mar 2012, at 15:22, Fred Baker wrote: > ICANN is now selling "dotless" names. A name without dots has a defined > behavior in most DNS resolvers; they find a way to further qualify them. Do > we want to humor ICANN, or solve this?
AIUI, the problem is more that on some operating systems a dotless name is first looked up in non-DNS based name spaces (e.g. NetBIOS). Only if those fail is it considered by DNS, with an optional search suffix. Hence on any particular network one cannot guarantee that the dotless name won't already exist in some other name space that then masks the (very expensive) DNS-based version. Ray _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
