Re: .local dns
Re: .local dns
- Subject: Re: .local dns
- From: "Steven Bytnar" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 18:52:00 -0500
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 07:28:04PM -0400, Peter John Hill wrote:
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I was not able to find any RFC or current internet draft that is
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claiming lordship over the .local domain. In my opinion, mdns is
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breaking DNS, and telnet'ing to a .local machine is more important to
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me that Rendezvous. If it is a requirement to reserve the .local tld,
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then Apple should get on the ball and write the draft and get it turned
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into an RFC
Apple does have a draft. Dec 20, 2002.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns-01.txt
The DNS domain ".local." is (this document proposes) a special domain
with special semantics, namely that ".local." and all its subdomains
are link-local, and names within this domain are meaningful only on
the link where they originate, much as IPv4 addresses in the
169.254/16 prefix are link-local and meaningful only on the link
where they originate.
Someone else has complained about this in the past.
http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-admin/2003-March/029619.html
You might drop a complaint on email@hidden too. ;)
--Steve
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