Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:29:17 +0000 From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: Hexren <me@hexren.net> Subject: Re: 4 part domain names Message-ID: <41A4A8CD.3020904@circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <20041124152355.GD11648@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20041123233501.GA82229@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <5557305861.20041124004849@hexren.net> <20041124000014.GA83249@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <8763344284.20041124022927@hexren.net> <20041124141737.GA11648@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <5315017844.20041124160806@hexren.net> <20041124152355.GD11648@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:08:06PM +0100, Hexren wrote: > : location. 510 could identify a rack or a datacenter so that > : us.510.mail.example.com means "a mail server in the datecenter with > : the id 510 which serves the United States". > > So 'us.510.mail' is an atomic, arbitrary identifier. All three as a unit > identify a certain node, and are selected purely for convenience of human > operators, right? > > I'm just making sure that the network doesn't treat 'us.510.mail' any > different than it would treat 'foobar', right? > No, I don't think this is right. mail can be a zone beneath example.com, 510 a zone beneath that and us a hostname. This host might be aliased to foobar.example.com but it doesn't have to be. Peter. -- the circle squared network systems and software http://www.circlesquared.com
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