On 30 Jun 2008 14:47:23 -0000, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
In article <63ac96a50806300036u5c1a9bbdq4efb8e4879650434@mail.gmail.com> you write:
Terribly stupid question, but one aproppos to this thread.
If my company pays for and registers a new TLD, let's call it "smtp" for grins, and I create an A record for "smtp." in my top level zone file, how will users outside my company resolve and reach that address?
In the usual way. Try typing this into your browser's address bar:
That was amusing. Firefox very handily took me to a search results page listing results for the word "museum", none of which was the actual page in question. In order to reach that page, in Firefox 1.5.0.12, I had to actually enter "http://museum./ and add the trailing dot to force the browser to *not* treat it as a stub token. IE was a little more normal, and simply returned a 'host unknown" error. Annoyingly enough, however, IE returned the "host unknown" for *both* "http://museum/" and "http://museum./" so it failed to follow proper resolution practice and ignored the trailing dot. Thanks for all the pointers! I guess I won't be suggesting the use of such TLDs as gmail and ymail as a way to shorten up email addresses for people, given the inconsistent behaviour of client resolvers. ^_^;
R's, John
Thanks! Matt