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On 19/12/17 13:57, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> There are no safe, free names to use for an internal network. On the one |
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> hand, RFC 8244 makes a decent argument that this is a good thing, |
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> because it guarantees that every hostname is globally unique (so if I |
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> copy/paste a URL to you, it goes the same place on your machine as it |
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> did mine). On the other hand, I hate the idea of paying some bureaucrat |
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> to be able to use my own network. |
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Which was why I liked Demon as my ISP. They had a customer domain and |
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assigned you a name on it. Whether you used it as a host or domain name |
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was up to you. |
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Most ISPs now assume you are a client and don't give you proper internet :-( |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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