[Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-01 March 24, 2008

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:43:51PM -0400, Chris Lewis wrote:
> 
> I rather like dnsbl.test.  What's the reason for including a dot? 
> Leaving the dot out reduces the probability (for the most part) with 
> colliding with a innocuous link.

For a test name, I wonder if the base name could be used.  e.g., query
multi.surbl.org for a 127.0.0.2 A record .  This is completely out of
band in the sense that you wouldn't accidentally trigger it because of
something in a message body.  OTOH it might add other difficulties such
as when having the base name point to a website.  Sorry if this has
already been brought up; I indeed have read everything, but probably
haven't memorized it all.

Another thought (not out-of-band, but also not likely to be hit)
is the name '.' .. e.g :
 
   %  host '\..geezer.org'
   \..geezer.org has address 127.0.0.2

But for something simple,  just 'test' doesn't seem all that bad.

mm