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Re: [DNSOP] DNS names for local networks - not only home residental networks ...

Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> Mon, 04 September 2017 22:22 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] DNS names for local networks - not only home residental networks ...
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> On Sep 4, 2017, at 3:12 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw@wittsend.com> wrote:
> 
> I would point out an analogous situation with documentation and
> addresses.  The documentation that accompanied Sun Microsystems SunOS
> and Solaris used examples of IP address 1.1.1.1 and 1.2.3.4 and
> similar, now making those blocks toxic since that /8 was assigned to
> APNIC.  IIRC, they also used names like .local and .test in some of
> their doco.  This isn't just a Microsoft think (and I'm far FAR from a
> Microsoft apologist).  Sometimes our tech writers do things they
> shouldn't when their crystal ball is cloud and we get stuck with the
> results.  And I've dealt with far FAR worse.

Wasn't 192.9.200 (from the Sun docs) the "1918" network of the mid-1980s?  I also recall SunOS manuals from that era encouraging customers to contact SMI if they needed a class C network block.

--lyndon

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