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From: nexus at patrol.i-way.co.uk (Nexus)
Subject: Verisign abusing .COM/.NET monopoly, BIND releases new

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rainer Gerhards" <rgerhards@...adiscon.com>

[snip]

> I don't like what Verisign does. But localhost.localdomain.com is not a
> safe domain name. I'd recommend either to use one registered to your
> organization or use one of those from
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2606.html. Actually, I would go for ".test".

That's an RFC to be careful of since some numpty decided that
example.com|.org|.net should not only actually resolve, but have some Redhat
box running a webserver answer for it as well.   At least it points you to
RFC2606 which I find somewhat ironic.   I always used to use example.com for
docs but I can't really anymore though as Rainer said, example.test seems to
be OK.
For now...

Cheers.