In a message written on Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 08:25:28PM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote:
Perhaps we could get an update to the relevant RFCs.. clarifying that only NS records may be dotless in the root namespace?
As in -- No hostnames A, MX, or CNAME at the TLD level.
I suspect some are already eyeing competitive advantage here. After all, if the root can return your A (MX, CNAME, TXT, RP, whatever) you are guaranteed one DNS query to resolve your name, one RTT to a DNS server, etc. Given the roots are well distributed, with several massively anycasted..... Shaving a DNS lookup or two every now and then is key to some peoples business models. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/