--On 24 October 2011 06:53:05 -0400 Keith Moore <mo...@network-heretics.com> wrote:
I'm just pointing out that for the vast majority of the contexts in which domain names are used, the expectation is that a domain name that contains a "." is fully-qualified.
This is sampling bias. In the vast majority of contexts where domain names (term used loosely) are used, those domain names contain at least one dot. In the vast majority of contexts where domain names (term used loosely) are used, those domain names are fully qualified. It is therefore statistically unsurprising that in the vast majority of contexts where domain with a dot in them, are used they are fully qualified. The question here should be "where search lists are used, are they frequently used in combination with domain names that are not fully qualified". I would suggest the answer to this question is "yes". If so, then to the extent that search lists are supported, you need to make them interwork names with dots in them. Moreover, with a search list of "example.com", having "mail" work, but not "mail.dev" is going to be a pretty surprising outcome. I think the two options are either deprecating search lists (or not supporting them), or supporting them properly, in which case they must be used whatever domain name is specified, and the way to avoid using a search list is the same old hack as before (i.e. putting a dot on the end). -- Alex Bligh _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
