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Re: [dnsext] Fwd: Last Call: <draft-cheshire-dnsext-special-names-01.txt> (Special-Use Domain Names) to Proposed Standard

Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> Fri, 04 February 2011 12:38 UTC

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Cc: Ralph Droms <rdroms.ietf@gmail.com>, dnsext@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [dnsext] Fwd: Last Call: <draft-cheshire-dnsext-special-names-01.txt> (Special-Use Domain Names) to Proposed Standard
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* Samuel Weiler:

> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Ralph Droms wrote:
>
>> FYI; review and comment requested...
> ...
>>  This document describes what it means to say that a DNS name is
>>  reserved for special use, when reserving such a name is appropriate,
>>  and the procedure for doing so.
>
> I observe that the document is not putting any names in the registry
> it is creating.  Are there names that should be in the registry?

LOCAL.  If understand things correctly, it's widely used to trigger
Multicast DNS resolution in combined DNS/Multicast DNS environments.

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