From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 17 7:30:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14CC537B41B for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 07:30:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 16Fzil-0003wh-00; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:30:27 +0100 Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBHEeqE15630 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:40:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mailnull) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Top-level domains Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:40:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <9vl05j$f6n$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20011216044542.Y86103-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <3C1DBE25.B03DC40@mindspring.com> <9vkjth$2sc2$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <3C1DEF39.DE92F450@mindspring.com> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > > > In the UK, it was ".co.uk". in fact, most of Europe used X.500 > > > ordering, as in "uk.co.demon" for a very long time. > > > > Care to substantiate that claim? > > The only context in which I've ever heard of those reversed addresses > > was JANET, and the UK does not qualify as "most of Europe". > > The answer to this lies in the lookup middleware and the name > translation. [...] I repeat: Please substantiate your claim that "most of Europe used X.500 ordering, as in 'uk.co.demon' for a very long time". -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message