Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 12:00:21 -0500 (EST) From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@dreaming.org> To: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A call for DNS secondaries to server for <dom>.freebsd.org Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951208115843.16359A-100000@dreamlabs.dreaming.org> In-Reply-To: <199512081551.PAA13026@cadair.elsevier.co.uk>
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On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Paul Richards wrote:
> Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 15:51:46 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: A call for DNS secondaries to server for <dom>.freebsd.org
>
> In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said
> >
> > I'm not sure what to do about the U.S. ftp servers except perhaps
> > to be U.S.-centric about it and just use the freebsd.org domain space
> > directly for U.S. resources. Would people prefer to see ftp.us.freebsd.org?
> > It would seem to be adding unnecessary complexity.
> >
>
> It's been in the back of my mind to grab the freebsd.org.uk domain since
> I noticed Linux has one.
>
> Do other countries have similar namespace conventions? We could get all
> the freebsd.org.<country code> domains allocated. This would reduce
> namserver load on freebsd.org's nameservers because the top level
> domain queries would go to the countries org nameserver and not
> freebsd.org's. i.e queries to ftp.freebsd.org.uk will come to the uk.
>
> What do you think? I can get the domain name and a name server sorted
> out but not the actual mirror sites, not enough bandwidth.
>
Hmmm... here in Canada it usually is required to be incorporated to get
just .ca (its much easier to do, say, .on.ca which is on a provincial
level... but, i can see what i can come up with.
-Mit
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Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe, mitayai@dreaming.org
http://www.dreaming.org/~mitayai
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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