[Standards] Re: IDNA text for rfc3920bis

[Mridul]

Matthias Wimmer wrote:
> Hi Peter!
> 
> Peter Saint-Andre schrieb:
>>> What's wrong with using "romeo.localhost" and "juliet.localhost" 
>>> instead of using "romeo" and "juliet"? These addresses would also 
>>> conform RFC 2606.
>>>
>>> I've also changed the default configuration of jabberd14 before I 
>>> released 1.6.0 to even have all internal-only addresses below the 
>>> localhost pseudo-TLD. (e.g. "sessions.localhost", "xdbsql.localhost", 
>>> "c2s.localhost" and that like).
>>
>> Do such addresses work in, say, a distributed cluster?
> 
> I don't really understand the question ... but maybe this is just 
> because I can't see why they should not work. They are just standard 
> addresses. The fact that "localhost" is in them does not mean that they 
> have to be on the same host.
> 
> 
> Matthias

Hi Matthias,

   I think the query was because :
If you used only hostnames - then they get resolved to the default 
domain : like peer1, peer2, etc would resolve to peer1.domain and work.
With peer1.localhost, unless you have resolution entries for these in 
the dns, it would not work (and other than /etc/hosts style entries - 
which are a pain to maintain across nodes).

For argument sake, we could envision that for high availability nodes 
... use fully resolved hostnames.

Regards,
Mridul