[GTALUG] server question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 02:12:40PM -0500, Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
> Big "+1" on that...
> 
> I use a local subset of a TLD I own.  There is NO risk of some surprise
> happening as a consequence of ICANN delegating a new TLD.
> 
> I seem to recall there being a problem when the new gTLDs came along where
> printers (HP, most likely) started pinging at outside names because "that
> would never happen" wound up happening.
> 
> It sure would be nice if ICANN or IETF were to declare a TLD or three as
> being the TLD equivalent to "non-routable local private IPs" like
> 192.168.*.*, but this hasn't happened.

Well RFC 6761 does reserve:

.invalid
.test
.localhost

So that at least is a few that could be used especially that last one.

-- 
Len Sorensen