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Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

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On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 12:33 PM <debian-user@howorth.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:08 AM Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 2024-01-12, debian-user@howorth.org.uk
> > > <debian-user@howorth.org.uk> wrote:
> > > > Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> > > >> On 2024-01-11, Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > There was a thread that "home" as the top level domain might
> > > >> > not be really safe (somebody might register it). A reserved
> > > >> > domain is "home.arpa" so e.g. to have "thinkpad",
> > > >> > the /etc/hosts entry should be
> > > >> >
> > > >> > 127.0.1.1       thinkpad.home.arpa thinkpad
> > > >> >
> > > >>
> > > >>  The .arpa domain is the “Address and Routing Parameter Area”
> > > >> domain and is designated to be used exclusively for
> > > >> Internet-infrastructure purposes.
> > > >>
> > > >> https://www.iana.org/domains/arpa
> > > >
> > > > Indeed, and a little way down that page it says:
> > > >
> > > >   home.arpa     For non-unique use in residential home networks
> > > >                 RFC 8375
> > >
> > > I missed that.
> > >
> > > Yet the reserved gTLDs from the 2018 ICANN resolution
> > > are .home, .corp, and .mail. Does home.arpa comply with that
> > > resolution?
> >
> > And to muddy the waters a little more, IANA has some reserved domain
> > names, too:
> > <https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/special-use-domain-names.xhtml>.
> > Also see <https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved>.
>
> Those references don't seem to muddy the issue. The second refers to
> the first and the first says
>
>   home.arpa.    [RFC8375]

The fellow asked about .home, .corp, and .mail immediately above.

IANA widens the list to include names like local. and invalid. There
are more names than just the few named in this thread.

Jeff

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  Re: Temporary failure in name resolution <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-01-10 19:30 +0100
    Re: Temporary failure in name resolution Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2024-01-10 19:40 +0100
      Re: Temporary failure in name resolution Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-01-10 19:50 +0100
        Re: Temporary failure in name resolution Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2024-01-10 20:30 +0100
          Re: Temporary failure in name resolution Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-01-10 20:30 +0100
          Re: Temporary failure in name resolution Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-01-10 21:30 +0100
            Re: Temporary failure in name resolution Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-01-11 04:20 +0100
              Re: Temporary failure in name resolution Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-01-11 04:30 +0100
                Re: Temporary failure in name resolution Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-01-12 04:10 +0100
              Re: Temporary failure in name resolution David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-01-11 06:00 +0100
              Re: Temporary failure in name resolution Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2024-01-11 17:40 +0100
                Re: Temporary failure in name resolution Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-01-11 18:10 +0100
                Re: Temporary failure in name resolution debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-01-12 12:30 +0100
                Re: Temporary failure in name resolution Byung-Hee HWANG <soyeomul@doraji.xyz> - 2024-01-12 14:10 +0100
                Re: Temporary failure in name resolution Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2024-01-12 17:10 +0100
                Re: Temporary failure in name resolution Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-01-12 17:30 +0100
                Re: Temporary failure in name resolution Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-01-12 18:40 +0100
                Re: Temporary failure in name resolution debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-01-12 18:40 +0100
                Re: Temporary failure in name resolution John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-01-12 20:50 +0100
                Re: Temporary failure in name resolution debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-01-12 19:20 +0100
          Re: Temporary failure in name resolution <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-01-11 06:30 +0100

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