Re: Temporary failure in name resolution
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?
I don't see there's any connection between that resolution and anything
done within the .arpa gTLD. So there's no notion of 'complying'.
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