If they assign .local, they will break the default for AD, especially SBS, Apple Rendezvous, anything using mDNS/Zeroconf, and a lot of other "local significance only" uses of DNS, or, which is more likely, the domains in .local will find themselves unresolvable from a very large portion of the Internet. .local should be reserved.
-----Original Message----- From: Tony Finch [mailto:dot@dotat.at] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 12:21 PM To: Jon Kibler Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Jon Kibler wrote:
Well, I guess this shoots in the foot Microsoft's name server best practices of setting up your AD domain as foo.LOCAL, using
the logic
that .LOCAL is safe because it cannot be resolved by the root name servers.
.local is also used by MDNS. (Nice interop problem there.)
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