[2621] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NAVYJOBS.COM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Mon Apr 22 22:37:23 1996
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Apr 1996 21:38:31 BST."
<96Apr22.213840+0100_edt.20637+44@chops.icp.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 19:36:30 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
(I keep thinking -- what has this got to do with North American Network Ops?)
> 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's an implementation detail; the protocol won't (I mean, wouldn't :-))
have to change at all to support this.
