On Mon, 2010-01-11, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:

> Ie. if .invalid has to be dumped, the replacement should be in .arpa. I 
> can accept that. _If_ it has to be dumped.

> Maybe .invalid was a bad choice in the first place. But that's water 
> under the bridge.

My understanding was that the intended usages are slightly different: 

*.invalid could be used in places that if it accidentally got out onto the
internet it would do no harm to any legitimate domains. It was also
acceptable for a resolver to recognize that .invalid was "invalid" and
short circuit the DNS lookup.

sink.arpa seems to be intended to allow for recursive lookup and a proper
NXDOMAIN to be returned as normal. I think that it is specifically intended
NOT be treated specially by resolvers.


-- 
Bill McQuillan <[email protected]>

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