Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 08:45:05 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A call for DNS secondaries to server for <dom>.freebsd.org Message-ID: <28692.818441105@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Dec 1995 15:51:46 GMT." <199512081551.PAA13026@cadair.elsevier.co.uk>
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> It's been in the back of my mind to grab the freebsd.org.uk domain since > I noticed Linux has one. > > Do other countries have similar namespace conventions? We could get all > the freebsd.org.<country code> domains allocated. This would reduce > namserver load on freebsd.org's nameservers because the top level > domain queries would go to the countries org nameserver and not > freebsd.org's. i.e queries to ftp.freebsd.org.uk will come to the uk. Hmmmm. I think that this proposal has definite merit on the grounds you list (name lookup optimization), but it also has the disadvantage of significantly more complexity. We need to get all the subdomains registered with RIPE or some other authority, and in some cases this could cost money (I don't know if the NIC's policies have been promulgated elsewhere). Subdividing freebsd.org, on the other hand, we can do entirely ourselves and don't need to cut through red tape for each and every new subdomain. Mind you, I see no reason why *both* couldn't be done. We do the subdividing of freebsd.org now and if certain countries manage to create freebsd.org.<dom> domains as well later, they can simply map the existing information across into the new domain. The administration of this might get a little tricky in some cases, but nothing that a little close communication wouldn't cure. I think we should also consider the possible confusion this may cause and only create new subdomains in pairs. E.g. it would be really evil if we had ftp.fr.freebsd.org, ftp.it.freebsd.org, etc. and then an ftp.freebsd.org.uk but no ftp.uk.freebsd.org. It would cause no end of questions. What do other folks think? Are we perhaps over-complicating this? Jordan
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