e.g. the ".local" TLD. When microsoft introduced the ".local" TLD for "rendezvous" incompatibility, their windows boxes started to query the root-servers for nonsense like "refrigerator.local" When some hearty nameserver operators fighted back, loading a zone file for ".local" they brought campus networks down. Zeroconfig was never meant to query port 53 - but they do. As soon as some windows gurus see an official document about dnsbl they will put it into the windows dns. Looking for cnn.com on 127.0.0.1 will be fun. Some of those boxes do serve http. Kind regards Peter Ted Hardie wrote: > At 11:04 AM -0800 11/13/08, Matthias Leisi wrote: >> The suggestion to use a dedicated RRTYPE is nice, but many others have >> failed in this endeavour before. >> >> -- Matthias > > > What do you mean "failed in this endeavour"? failed to get an RR > assigned, or failed in deployment? > > regards, > Ted > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf -- Peter and Karin Dambier Cesidian Root - Radice Cesidiana Rimbacher Strasse 16 D-69509 Moerlenbach-Bonsweiher +49(6209)795-816 (Telekom) +49(6252)750-308 (VoIP: sipgate.de) mail: peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.peter-dambier.de/ http://iason.site.voila.fr/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/iason/ _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf