[jdev] Second-guessing dns for s2s

[Tijl Houtbeckers]

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 03:53:29 +0200, Perry Lorier <isomer at coders.net> wrote:

> Tijl Houtbeckers wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 03:36:09 +0200, Perry Lorier <isomer at coders.net>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> Are you playing devil's advocate or are you serious? If I had to  
>>>> guess,
>>>> I'd say that 99.9% of public XMPP servers are deployed at [domain].com
>>>> or [sub].[domain].com. They're not deployed at
>>>> [sub].[sub].[sub].[domain].com. This means that there are generally
>>>> never "unused" or "hardly used" domains up the tree from any  
>>>> particular
>>>> XMPP server that somebody could stealthily take over.
>>>
>>>
>>> We run our conference server on conference.jabber.meta.net.nz.
>>
>>
>> It the tld .net.nz or .nz?
>
> The .nz cc-tld is broken up into several 2ld's .co, .net, .org, .gov,
> ,.gen, .maori, .school, .iwi, .geek, etc.

Yes, sorry.. I meant to ask if it was part of the split cc-tld, or if the  
"net." part was a "for sale" domain. So in your case you're still running  
on conference.[sub].[domain].[cc-tld]

But eg. .uk.com (not .com.uk!) is quite populair, while "uk.com" is really  
just another .com domain (and a website even, promoting amongst other  
things those gambling sites). So you could eg. have jabber.example.com.uk,  
which is to put it in Matt's terms a [sub].[sub].[domain].com. I was  
wondering if the same applied here, which is not the case.