Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-15 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Phil Mayers wrote: On 14/11/12 15:39, Kevin Darcy wrote: I stopped reading as soon as I saw the requirement to add a NetBIOS name, being overpowered by the stench of obsolescence. Does anyone As per our recent thread, there's load of (recent, modern) stuff

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-15 Thread Carsten Strotmann
Phil Mayers p.may...@imperial.ac.uk writes: On 14/11/12 15:02, King, Harold Clyde (Hal) wrote: I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to keep some hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a DNS name like host.sub.local. I do not know of the use of the .local

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-15 Thread Sten Carlsen
On 15/11/12 15:39, Carsten Strotmann wrote: Phil Mayers p.may...@imperial.ac.uk writes: On 14/11/12 15:02, King, Harold Clyde (Hal) wrote: I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to keep some hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a DNS name like

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-15 Thread Novosielski, Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/15/2012 09:40 AM, Carsten Strotmann wrote: '.local is the 4th most queried domain name (after localhost, com and net), but it should not exist at all in the Internet (or queries should not reach the root server system). You see corp, intern

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-15 Thread btb
On 2012.11.15 10.14, Novosielski, Ryan wrote: Failing to operate a private TLD correctly is causing internal data leaking to the Internet, which could be a security risk but in all cases is a burden on the root server system. Not that I think that I'm doing this (and as I'd said, the only

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-15 Thread Novosielski, Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/15/2012 11:36 AM, btb wrote: On 2012.11.15 10.14, Novosielski, Ryan wrote: Failing to operate a private TLD correctly is causing internal data leaking to the Internet, which could be a security risk but in all cases is a burden on the root

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-15 Thread btb
On 2012.11.15 11.39, Novosielski, Ryan wrote: Great, thanks, sounds like I'm covered then (I have BIND running authoritative for my zone on the firewall/NAT machine only accepting queries from my local 1918 addresses) and DHCP providing its address as the nameserver. be sure that bind is also

User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread King, Harold Clyde (Hal)
I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to keep some hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a DNS name like host.sub.local. I do not know of the use of the .local TLD except in bonjure. Can anyone shed some light on the use of the .local TLD? -- Hal King -

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread Tony Finch
King, Harold Clyde (Hal) h...@utk.edu wrote: I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to keep some hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a DNS name like host.sub.local. I do not know of the use of the .local TLD except in bonjure. Can anyone shed some light

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread John Miller
Hey there Hal, It doesn't look like .local is officially reserved (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606), but .localdomain definitely is. John John Miller Systems Engineer Brandeis University 781-736-4619 johnm...@brandeis.edu On 11/14/2012 10:02 AM, King, Harold Clyde (Hal) wrote: I'm a bit

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread Kevin Darcy
The .local TLD is reserved for link-local names, in the context of multicast DNS (mDNS), however, I don't think mDNS has progressed beyond the Internet Draft stage of the IETF Standards Track process. See http://www.multicastdns.org for latest updates. It would be imprudent to use .local for

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread Novosielski, Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/14/2012 10:09 AM, Tony Finch wrote: King, Harold Clyde (Hal) h...@utk.edu wrote: I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to keep some hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a DNS name like host.sub.local.

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 11/14/2012 10:08 AM, Tony Finch wrote: King, Harold Clyde (Hal) h...@utk.edu wrote: I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to keep some hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a DNS name like host.sub.local. I do not know of the use of the .local TLD except

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread SM
At 07:15 14-11-2012, John Miller wrote: It doesn't look like .local is officially reserved (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606), but .localdomain definitely is. .localdomain is not reserved. Regards, -sm ___ Please visit

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread John Miller
Thanks for the catch--guess I was writing a little too quickly this morning. .localhost is reserved; .localdomain isn't. John On 11/14/2012 11:17 AM, SM wrote: At 07:15 14-11-2012, John Miller wrote: It doesn't look like .local is officially reserved (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606),

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread Phil Mayers
On 14/11/12 15:39, Kevin Darcy wrote: I stopped reading as soon as I saw the requirement to add a NetBIOS name, being overpowered by the stench of obsolescence. Does anyone As per our recent thread, there's load of (recent, modern) stuff that still uses NetBIOS. Sadly. actually run 2000

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread Phil Mayers
On 14/11/12 15:02, King, Harold Clyde (Hal) wrote: I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to keep some hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a DNS name like host.sub.local. I do not know of the use of the .local TLD except in bonjure. Can anyone shed some

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread btb
On 2012.11.14 10.02, King, Harold Clyde (Hal) wrote: I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to keep some hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a DNS name like host.sub.local. I do not know of the use of the .local TLD except in bonjure. Can anyone shed some

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread Sten Carlsen
On 14/11/12 17:50, btb wrote: On 2012.11.14 10.02, King, Harold Clyde (Hal) wrote: I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to keep some hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a DNS name like host.sub.local. I do not know of the use of the .local TLD except in