Vix:
i think he's seen RFC 1034 :-). anyway, i don't see the difference between http://sony/ and http://sony./
The fact that the resolution of "sony." is deterministic, and that of "sony" is location dependent?
i think we have to just discourage lookups of single-token names, universally.
In order to do which, we have to discourage their *deployment*. And if by "universally" you mean "no Jay, you can't say 'telnet dns1' from your desktop machine to get to your inhouse nameserver, then I'm just gonna have to go ahead and disagree with ya' there, Vix. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274