Re: PROPSAL: import Apple's mDNSResponder

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:28:04 -0400 (EDT)
der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> wrote:

> >> whois.iana.org says no .local TLD exists.  Given that, I think it
> >> is a very bad idea
> > relax.  there's an rfc for it.
> 
> Which one?  I did a quick grep for .local and the only one that looked
> promising was 2965, but (a) this is not HTTP state management we're
> talking about and (b) 2965 even includes an IESG note warning about
> the possibility of its breaking if a .local TLD is ever created.
> It's also relatively old.
> 
I thought he was talking about 4795, but even that doesn't talk
about .local.  If memory serves, the issue of .local came up when I was
on the IESG.  We didn't like it...


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb