Re: [DNSOP] additional special names Fwd: I-D Action: draft-chapin-additional-reserved-tlds-00.txt

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>I believe that with the considerable sleuthing abilities of the IETF
>community, we ought to be able to take this initial set of observed data
>and treat it as a call to action for the IETF community, for someone to
>step forward and tell us *why* those names are in use, are leaking out
>to the root name servers, and what the intended use is for these names.

Um, we already know.  They're used to name things on private networks,
often behind a NAT, and they leak out for random not particularly
interesting reasons, such as people taking their laptops on trips
which then look for the printer that lives on their office LAN when
they're connected to the wifi at a coffee shop.

On my home network I have a couple of dozen hosts, what with all the
networked printers, phones, tablets, laptops, and so forth, and
because I am a lazy guy, I give them names like kindle.lan rather than
longer global names.  My local DNS cache resolves those names to
addresses in 192.168/16.  I think that's pretty typical of small
business networks.  It's useful, but I don't see anything worth
standardizing other than don't resolve .LAN on the global Internet.

R's,
John