On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 07:58:54PM +0000, Edward Lewis <edward.le...@icann.org> wrote a message of 145 lines which said:
> >Name: draft-lewis-domain-names > >Revision: 00 If you want a nice example of a domain name which is not a DNS name, add in your /etc/hosts (or equivalent for your OS): 104.20.1.85 veryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryverylongname.example.com It is not a DNS name (first label is too long) but it works fine for several applications which expect domain names: % ping -c 3 veryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryverylongname.example.com PING veryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryverylongname.example.com (104.20.1.85) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from veryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryverylongname.example.com (104.20.1.85): icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=2.10 ms 64 bytes from veryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryverylongname.example.com (104.20.1.85): icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=1.88 ms 64 bytes from veryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryverylongname.example.com (104.20.1.85): icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=2.27 ms --- veryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryverylongname.example.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.887/2.089/2.273/0.166 ms _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
