[2623] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NAVYJOBS.COM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec H. Peterson)
Mon Apr 22 23:23:02 1996
From: "Alec H. Peterson" <chuckie@panix.com>
To: smd@icp.net (Sean Doran)
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 23:22:03 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: pferguso@cisco.com, smd@icp.net, john@interport.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <96Apr22.213840+0100_edt.20637+44@chops.icp.net> from "Sean Doran" at Apr 22, 96 09:38:31 pm
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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