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Re: [DNSOP] draft-liman-tld-names-04

Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> Mon, 20 December 2010 23:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] draft-liman-tld-names-04
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In message <20101220142857.GA15596@nic.fr>, Stephane Bortzmeyer writes:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 02:44:44PM -0800,
>  Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us> wrote 
>  a message of 113 lines which said:
> 
> > I'm 100% sure that there is deployed software that WILL break if you
> > have a TLD label that even starts with a number, never mind is
> > all-numeric
> 
> We can test with the pseudo-TLD "42.". Here is the configuration
> required to use it with Unbound:
> 
> # .42  http://42registry.org/ 
> domain-insecure: "42"
> stub-zone:
>    name: "42"
>    stub-addr: 91.191.147.246
>    stub-addr: 91.191.147.243
> 
> It is open to zone transfers so you can know what is inside. Tests
> seem to indicate that Windows Vista has problems
> <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947228> as well as Google Chrome (I
> cannot reproduce these ones).

I just had one of our guys have a quick look at a sample of real
life response traffic.  0.015% appears to have a numeric tld.  Having
a quick look at that sample I see service discover on IP addresses
being performed (i.e. recent code).  I also see raw IP addresses.
I see what appears to be IP addresses being used as a search list
element.

Mark
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