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Re: More Internet Explorer zone confusion (new issue)
From: paulle () MICROSOFT COM (Paul Leach)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:33:34 -0800
-----Original Message----- From: Jeremie [mailto:jer () jeremie com] Sent: Monday, March 08, 1999 5:25 PM To: BUGTRAQ () netspace org; Paul Leach Subject: Re: More Internet Explorer zone confusion (new issue)That's correct. I believe that the rule for Intranet zone is simple -- ifthe name has no"." and is less than 15 characters long, then it's Intranetzone. Thisalgorithm works with the default configuration of Windows.If you configureyour machine so that the above assumption is violated, thenyou'll get amis-classification.I believe the assumptions above are flawed, there is another issue on this topic which I haven't seen mentioned yet, the TLDs.
The assumptions may indeed be flawed, but I don't understand how your observations below demonstrate that.
I haven't researched this fully, but one day I was distracted when working on one of the servers and accidentally typed another command without finishing the first: prompt> ping ls I was quite surprised(astonished) to see replies! Apparently there's nothing stopping a TLD server from assigning an IP address *TO THE TLD*, so LEO Internet Services, > http://ls/ <, assigned their IP to Lesotho's. I haven't tested any of the other TLDs yet, but I can envision a future where TLD registration is open and McDonalds creates the TLD "mcdonalds" and uses that as their primary site. I don't have IE handy, so I haven't tested how it handles this situation. Jeremie jer () jeremie com
Current thread:
- Re: More Internet Explorer zone confusion (new issue) Paul Leach (Mar 08)
- Re: More Internet Explorer zone confusion (new issue) Jeremie (Mar 08)