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Re: Bare TLD resolutions
From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:51:13 -0400 (EDT)
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From: "Mark Andrews" <marka () isc org>
Search lists are for hosts and host like things. Resolver libraries have different interfaces for different purposes. Single label hostnames for reaching non local equipment was deliberately phase out in the 1980's as it was clearly a bad concept.
Yes, and we're discussing the practical reason *why* it's a bad concept. :-) My abject apologies to everyone who didn't get that I was talking about the *source* of the problem by synecdoche. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra () baylink com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
Current thread:
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions, (continued)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Jay Ashworth (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Eric Brunner-Williams (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions David Conrad (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Tony Finch (Sep 19)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions David Conrad (Sep 19)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions John Levine (Sep 21)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Jay Ashworth (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Andrew Sullivan (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Mark Andrews (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Jay Ashworth (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Mark Andrews (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions Andrew Sullivan (Sep 17)
- Re: Bare TLD resolutions David Conrad (Sep 17)