From: Fergal Daly (fergal at domain esatclear.ie)
Date: Mon 22 May 2000 - 14:10:47 IST
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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