[23911] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Wasted space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Thu Apr 29 20:04:28 1999
Reply-To: <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "Austin Schutz" <tex@shrubbery.net>,
"Randy Bush" <rbush@bainbridge.verio.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:02:02 -0700
In-Reply-To: <19990429164811.44045@shrubbery.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
So you trade dotted quad notation for a base36 number? That defeats the =
purpose of DNS. Your statement is meaningless, as your local dictionary =
will show. Randy is right, DNS is finite as well, albeit, constrained =
semantically, rather than mathematically.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Austin Schutz
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 4:48 PM
> To: Randy Bush
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Wasted space
>=20
>=20
>=20
> >your point?
>=20
> It would be possible to assign names to every atom in the=20
> universe and
> still have some left over. Maybe not infinite but close enough :-)
>=20
> Tex
>=20
