On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:10:19 +0200 (CEST), Tamas TEVESZ
<ice@???> wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> > "123.456.789.123" is a syntactically valid *domain name*.
>
>now that you're telling... i've never thought to approach from this
>direction.. (hm, is it sure it's valid ? isn't the validity determined
>by the TLDs recognized, issued and handled by iana [or whoever that
>organization it is today]? ok, this was just a theoretical question ;)
which has a practical answer -- if you control the dns server you're
using for look ups, you can easily tell it that it is authoritative
for the ".123" zone, set up a zone file, and have it start answering.
since the TLDs are starting to change, it would be insanity to encode
knowledge of the TLDs into anything other than a TLD server itself.
