On Mar 13, 2012, at 12:23 PM, Ralph Droms wrote: > > On Mar 13, 2012, at 12:16 PM 3/13/12, Ray Bellis wrote: > >> >> On 11 Mar 2012, at 15:22, Fred Baker wrote: >> >>> ICANN is now selling "dotless" names. A name without dots has a defined >>> behavior in most DNS resolvers; they find a way to further qualify them. Do >>> we want to humor ICANN, or solve this? >> >> AIUI, the problem is more that on some operating systems a dotless name is >> first looked up in non-DNS based name spaces (e.g. NetBIOS). Only if those >> fail is it considered by DNS, with an optional search suffix. > > "dotless name" == "pay-for-play TLDs" ??? > Just remember to dot your I(cann)s and cross your t(LD)s.
Sorry, couldn't resist... > - Ralph > >> >> Hence on any particular network one cannot guarantee that the dotless name >> won't already exist in some other name space that then masks the (very >> expensive) DNS-based version. >> >> Ray >> > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > homenet@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
