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Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?



On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:16:27PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> 
> I'll do some searching.  The only non-resovable one I know is
> example.com but then, I wouldn't want to use it since then it would be
> resolvable :)
> 
roberto@miami:~$ host example.comexample.com has address 192.0.34.166
roberto@miami:~$ lynx -dump http://example.com

   You have reached this web page by typing "example.com", "example.net",
   or "example.org" into your web browser.

   These domain names are reserved for use in documentation and are not
   available for registration. See [1]RFC 2606, Section 3.

References

   1. http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt


But, you see, it *is* resolvable outside your network :-)

Regards,

-Roberto
-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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