From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 21:23:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nameserver.austclear.com.au (nameserver.austclear.com.au [192.83.119.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4650737B422 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 21:23:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten.austclear.com.au (tungsten.austclear.com.au [192.168.70.1]) by nameserver.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA96492; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:23:33 +1000 (EST) Received: from tungsten (tungsten [192.168.70.1]) by tungsten.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA27326; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:23:33 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200104270423.OAA27326@tungsten.austclear.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Christopher Leigh" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ahl@austclear.com.au Subject: Re: *.example.net In-Reply-To: Message from "Christopher Leigh" of "Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:13:23 EST." <004401c15e9d$b8af57e0$0101a8c0@contrec> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:23:32 +1000 From: Tony Landells Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG clcont@gmx.net said: > ok. uhm. just wondering... i read somewhere that example.net is > reserved because it's the example domain in the documentation... > is this true? > i can't remember where i read it. What, you mean like: nameserver# dig ns example.net ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> ns example.net ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; example.net, type = NS, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: example.net. 1d5h17m22s IN NS VENERA.ISI.EDU. example.net. 1d5h17m22s IN NS NS.ISI.EDU. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: VENERA.ISI.EDU. 1d20h12m28s IN A 128.9.176.32 NS.ISI.EDU. 8h53m10s IN A 128.9.128.127 ;; Total query time: 164 msec ;; FROM: nameserver.austclear.com.au to SERVER: default -- 192.168.128.177 ;; WHEN: Fri Apr 27 14:21:16 2001 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 29 rcvd: 106 I don't know about "reserved", but it certainly appears to be registered... Tony -- Tony Landells Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message