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On 30 Jun 2008 14:47:23 -0000, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > In article <[email protected]> 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: > > http://museum/ 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
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