[12567] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
RE: one-letter domains
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (WJCarpenter)
Sun May 22 01:51:47 1994
Date: Sat 21 May 1994 19:23:39 +0000
From: billc@pegasus.mail.att.net (WJCarpenter)
In-Reply-To: WJCarpenter's note of 15:06, 21 May 1994
To: com-priv@psi.com, namedroppers@rs.internic.net
wjc> Neither way helps me especially in doing the next query for
wjc> "*.arthropod.com". On the other hand, a sort of a protocol change
wjc> that allowed DNS responses of the form
wjc> art*.com NS ns-art.com-nic.net
wjc> would save me some trips to the root servers for subsequent queries if
wjc> my local server recognized these newfangled wildcard NS records.
It goes practically without saying that you could also pick some
regular expression syntax and subsitution syntax so that the total
number of such wildcard NS records known by the roots would be small;
perhaps even small enough to be put into the root hints file someday:
(?{1-3})*.(com|net|org|int|mil|gov) NS ns-&1.&2-nic.net
or
(?{1-3})*.(???) NS ns-&1.&2-nic.net
or whatever.
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