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Re: Domain names for ISP infrastructure links

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Billy Biggs)
Wed Jan 8 20:38:01 1997

Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 16:37:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Billy Biggs <ae687@freenet.carleton.ca>
To: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
cc: John Curran <jcurran@bbnplanet.com>,
        "John W. Stewart III" <jstewart@metro.isi.edu>, nanog@merit.net
In-Reply-To: <199701081216.MAA27642@diamond.xara.net>


On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Alex.Bligh wrote:

> >   <isoc-tree>.<internet-infrastructure branch>.
> >   <iso country code>.<city ordinal>.<provider #>.
> >   <facility #>.<rack #>.<shelf #>.<router ordinal>
> > 
> > Great fun to watch (it could be happening this way
> > in the alternate universe next door.)
> 
> Ow, can't we get the ZIP code and the longditude and
> lattitude in there as well? :->

Nah, that's what geographic IP addresses are for.

(Ok, look up the other addresses for those interfaces... I want to know 
_where_ my packets are going) ;-)

--
Billy Biggs
ae687@freenet.carleton.ca

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