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Brian E Carpenter writes:
> On 01/08/2012 05:48, Curtis Villamizar wrote:
> ...
> > fridge.sitelocal. is a FQDN with site local scope.
>
> And therefore intrinsically evil, just like 10.0.0.0/8 is intrinsically evil.
>
> IMHO we shouldn't be discussing how to make it work less badly; we should
> be discussing how to avoid it entirely.
>
> Brian
Brian,
Not being connected to the Internet and not having any configuration
at all might also be intrinsically evil, but that's the situation when
a consumer takes some gadget out of the box.
What we are trying to accomplish with the sitelocal is a way to name
things on a local network that have no domain name assigned through a
registry and have not had a domain name assigned as part of some
subdomain of the provider.
Even if the homenet WG was extremely thoroughthe gadget did 100% of
what we specify and implemented everything perfectly, we can't control
the user who almost never has a domain name of their own or the ISP
that can't be bothered delegating some subdomain of theirs to a
customer. The customer then has no global domain to hang names off of
and has no choice but to not use DNS or make use of a sitelocal domain
with site local scope.
So sitelocal is inherently needed, either during a transition (until
the uplink comes up at least for the first time and a domain name is
learned) or permanently (if no domain name ever gets delegated to the
residential customer site).
Curtis
ps - Yes - it is inherently evil. So is not delegating rDNS IMHO.
But we can't control those MSO and ILEC residential ISPs.
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