Re: [ILUG] [ot] .eu...

From: Justin Mason (jm at domain jmason.org)
Date: Mon 22 May 2000 - 14:05:33 IST


"Diarmaid O'Loughlin" said:

> > but they will not allow 2 char names, there is a 3 char min.....
> .com.ie anyone?

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 ;)

--j.

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