[dns-operations] Hearing first complains about failing internal resolving due to .prod TLD

David C Lawrence tale at akamai.com
Fri Sep 12 19:31:41 UTC 2014


Daniel Kalchev writes:
> On 12.09.14 05:47, Paul Vixie wrote:
> > in fairness, had we adopted the left-to-right presentation format
> > preferred at first by our UK colleagues, we would have always had to
> > write fully qualified names as .tld.sld.3ld, that is, the "root dot"
> > would not have been optional, and there would have been no confusion
> > between unqualified, partially qualified, and fully qualified domain names.
> 
> Even better, the DNS would not have turned into the vanity show it is
> today. 

How do you figure?



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