In message <[email protected]>, Paul Vixie writes: > Adam Atkinson <[email protected]> writes: > > > It was a very long time ago, but I seem to recall being shown http://dk, > > the home page of Denmark, some time in the mid 90s. > > > > Must I be recalling incorrectly? > > no you need not must be. it would work as long as no dk.this or dk.that > would be found first in a search list containing 'this' and 'that', where > the default search list is normally the parent domain name of your own > hostname (so for me on six.vix.com the search list would be vix.com and > so as long as dk.vix.com did not exist then http://dk/ would reach "dk.") > -- > Paul Vixie > KI6YSY
DK should NOT be doing this. DK is *not* a hierarchical host name and the address record should not exist, RFC 897. The Internet stopped using simple host names in the early '80s. In addition to that it is a security issue similar to that described in RFC 1535. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [email protected]
