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Re: NAVYJOBS.COM
- From: Alec H. Peterson
- Date: Mon Apr 22 23:22:23 1996
Sean Doran writes:
>
>
> instead we treat it as (leaving out the '<' '>' stuff out of laziness):
>
> <w><h><a><t><e><v><e><r><.><c><o><m>
>
> and look up like this:
>
> ask a ROOT nameserver for M NSes
> ask a M nameserver for O NSes
> ...
> ask a <w> nameserver for appropriate info
>
>that will scale to a huge number of generally
>unformatted labels for things.
Indeed, but this makes many assumptions, like that all of these
machines will always be up. Having so many machines is just asking
for more trouble; more points of failure. And in this case, each
nameserver is potentially a single point of failure.
>
>This strikes me as a practical way of moving towards
>".Earth" and ".Alt" and thousands of other "top-level-domains".
Blech, not all that pleasent a concept, although with the incredible
polution of namespace that is happen, it's probably one of the only
options.
Alec
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