[ILUG] [ot] .eu...

[Conor Daly]

I seem to recall that if you look for "netscape.com." (Note the trailing
dot) the resolver won't try the default domains.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul McCourt <pmccourt at marrakech.com>
To: 'Fergal Daly' <fergal at esatclear.ie>; jm at jmason.org <jm at jmason.org>;
Diarmaid O'Loughlin <dollar at csn.ul.ie>
Cc: ilug at linux.ie <ilug at linux.ie>
Date: 22 May 2000 14:17
Subject: RE: [ILUG] [ot] .eu...


>In fact most of the rest of the globe use the .com.ie's , .org.ie's and
>.net.ie's to ensure theres enough possible registrations to go around.
>
>The Canadians split theirs into provinces!
>
>
>At 14:05 22/05/00, Justin Mason wrote:
>>I would hope this wouldn't be allowed; old resolvers have/had a bug
>>whereby if your local domain was set to e.g. "dublin.blah.ie", and you
>>tried to resolve "netscape.com", the resolver would search:
>>
>>   netscape.com.dublin.blah.ie
>>   netscape.com.blah.ie
>>   netscape.com.ie               <<note!
>>   netscape.com
>>
>>Security/spoofing implications are left to the reader ;)
>
>The Australians seem happy enough with .com.au so it can't be much of a
>problem,
>
>Fergal
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>
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