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Re: Verisign abusing .COM/.NET monopoly, BIND releases new


From: "Nexus" <nexus () patrol i-way co uk>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:55:20 +0100


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rainer Gerhards" <rgerhards () hq adiscon com>

[snip]

I don't like what Verisign does. But localhost.localdomain.com is not a
safe domain name. I'd recommend either to use one registered to your
organization or use one of those from
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2606.html. Actually, I would go for ".test".

That's an RFC to be careful of since some numpty decided that
example.com|.org|.net should not only actually resolve, but have some Redhat
box running a webserver answer for it as well.   At least it points you to
RFC2606 which I find somewhat ironic.   I always used to use example.com for
docs but I can't really anymore though as Rainer said, example.test seems to
be OK.
For now...

Cheers.

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