[ILUG] DNS problem - getting local names

[Niall O Broin]

On Thursday 5 February 2004, juan at seqn.net (Juan Flynn) wrote:

>| * Kae Verens (kverens at webworks.ie) [040205 16:14]:
>|>We call the local machines *.im
>| Just to be picky, but it is bad practice to use a public top level
>| domain for internal use.
>
>Why is this bad practice?
>
>I think having private top level domains makes sense (so long as they
>don't conflict with 'real' toplevel domains of course). 

Exactly - which is exactly what the poster said 

| it is bad practice to use a public top level
| domain for internal use.



Niall