On Mar 13, 2012, at 12:16 PM 3/13/12, Ray Bellis wrote: > > 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.
"dotless name" == "pay-for-play TLDs" ??? - Ralph > > 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
