short name resolution

[Brad Knowles]

At 6:43 PM -0400 7/3/01, Kevin Darcy wrote:

>  Short names are evil. Use FQDNs for everything. The sooner you make this
>  "culture change" and re-form people's habits, the better off you'll be.

	Yup.  What happens when you type "telnet gw" and you discover 
that the gTLD ".gw" (Guinea-Bissau) actually has a valid IP address 
associated with it, and you end up trying to accidentally connect to 
their server instead of yours?

	What if you set up rules to forward all your mail to the machine 
"gw", and suddenly you start getting back the most bizarre bounces 
from West Africa?


	I've been there, done that.  Major Wall Street trading firm was 
losing untold quantities of e-mail because of this unqualified domain 
name issue.

	Trust me, you do *NOT* want to repeat this experience.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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