Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

[Stuart Cheshire <cheshire at apple.com>]

>In The Public-Root there used to exist a domain ".local". I know at least
>of one ISP who complained we did break a lot of windowed PCs.
>
>I dont know why queries for ".local" would leave their private LANs and
>reach even our root servers. They did!
>
>That is why we set up a dummy and returned localhost, to get rid of those
>bogus queries. That is what finally broke their windows and dropped our
>root server traffic some 25%. :)

I don't think this has anything to do with mDNS or LLMNR.

Stuart Cheshire <cheshire at apple.com>
 * Wizard Without Portfolio, Apple Computer, Inc.
 * www.stuartcheshire.org


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