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Re: Last Call: 'Domain Suffix Option for DHCPv6' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-dnsdomain)

2006-09-27 06:53:28


Fred Baker wrote:
Sorry, probably that's all obvious, but where is ["domain suffix"] defined ?

At the Verisign site. It is the new-speak for use when all us ancient geeky types would prefer "TLD".


Not quite. A TLD is the right most (visible) field, like com, net, my or us, whereas a "suffix" is typically longer, constituting an "organizationl" base domain name string, like example.com, or mtview.ca.us.


Hence:

Stig Venaas wrote:
> It's what a client might add to it's hostname to form an FQDN.

is a particularly practical way of putting it.


d/


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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
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