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Re: Domain names for ISP infrastructure links

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian R. Kim)
Wed Jan 8 02:22:52 1997

Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 02:21:23 -0500 (EST)
From: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@cic.net>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
cc: jcurran@bbnplanet.com, jstewart@metro.isi.edu, nanog@merit.net
In-Reply-To: <199701080642.WAA06556@quest.pluris.com>

On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Vadim Antonov wrote:

> That may sound silly, but there's a merit in the
> idea that domain names can successfully replace the
> SNMP's object IDs.  SNMP and DNS then become the same
> protocol.

Cool. I can now dream of a day when nslookup for a router returns something
lovely like:

1.3.6.1.2.1.11

-dorian ;)


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