On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:40:35PM +0100,
 Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 
 a message of 18 lines which said:

> RFC 1123 section 2.1, especially the last sentence.

Well, the last sentence will no longer be true if all-numeric TLDs are
allocated but, before that, one finds:

> The host SHOULD check the string syntactically for a dotted-decimal
> number before looking it up in the Domain Name System.

which seems to reply to David Conrad's question: if all the
implementations are correct, 127.0.0.1 will always be an IP address,
even if the TLD ".1" is allocated.
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