-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Douglas Otis <dotis@mail-abuse.org> wrote:

Do not depend upon applications not to resolve addresses for root names, even when a convention is explicit. Depending upon root answers to support a protocol feature unrelated to DNS is normally considered a design mistake isn't it?

Subject line changed to reflect reality. If this issue has strayed into the field of DNS issues, please, let's mark it as such. The initial thread started on the issue of domain tasting, and perhaps it has morphed here. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGw79vq1pz9mNUZTMRAtCnAKCW7swTGNENv2MbjTc4dogXVy5bPQCgzX4W pDXCDMmFkYTqmqJQqO5tpZA= =YDtZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/