[12547] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Barrett)
Fri May 20 23:59:11 1994
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 17:53:52 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: Alan Barrett <barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
To: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <aa01e6b32d021011e515@[128.102.17.23]>
> In this case, there is nothing to prevent
> having the string MountainView registered as an alias to mtview.
In the present DNS, registering
mountainview.ca.us. CNAME mtview.ca.us.
doesn't help all the foo.mtview.ca.us subdomains, and registering
*.mountainview.ca.us. CNAME *.mtview.ca.us.
doesn't have useful semantics. It would be easty to write an RFC and
change the implementations to give useful semantics to wildcards on the
right hand side of a CNAME record, but it hasn't happened yet.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
