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Re: server redirects by client domain

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren New)
Wed Dec 20 14:42:26 1995

Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 14:28:03 +0000
From: Darren New <dnew@sgf.fv.com>
To: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
Cc: David Robinson <drtr1@cus.cam.ac.uk>, martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk,
        www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199512201902.LAA27272@bert.amazon.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org

> I'm going to float this idea because I thought of it, not necessarily
> because I have thought it through  . . . wouldn't this be the kind of
> thing it would be nice if DNS could do for you? 

I think it would be nice if the DNS has a domain that maps IP addresses 
to lat/long pairs. Then you could see who is close, what taxes you need 
where, and so on.  I would think you'd want it similar to the 
in-addr.arpa domain.    --Darren


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