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From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To: Hexren <me@hexren.net>
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On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:48:49AM +0100, Hexren wrote:
: Now add to that picture that every subdomain could be an alias for another
: domain or point to an IP address, which incase of the IP address is
: meaning a real machine.

So that means that the right-most portion of the subdomain would be either
the aliased domain of another machine or an IP address, right?  So does that
mean us.510.mail.yahoo.com could be us.510.some_secret_domain.xxx??  Or that
it could be a new domain within a private network?  Or either?



jm
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