From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 9 18:53:07 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA20956 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 18:53:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA20930 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 18:52:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id DAA01170 ; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 03:52:55 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id DAA20163 ; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 03:52:54 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.3/keltia-uucp-2.7) id DAA01128; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 03:09:55 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199512100209.DAA01128@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: A call for DNS secondaries to server for .freebsd.org To: cross@math.psu.edu (Dan Cross) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 03:09:54 +0100 (MET) Cc: cross@math.psu.edu, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199512091904.OAA00238@hausdorff.math.psu.edu> from "Dan Cross" at Dec 9, 95 02:04:51 pm X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1419 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Dan Cross said: > Another point that I hadn't thought of that Dave Barr pointed out to me > was that a lot of counties don't use the standard convention for domain > naming, that is, in England that use *.co.uk instead of *.com.uk. Thus, The USA are not using anyway. The real standard for the US should be .us :-) In France, the situation in .fr is similar to .com now, for a long there was no read control over the name space. The universities uses all sort of naming scheme (univ-*.fr, u-*.fr, something.fr, and so on) for example. > it would turn into a big mess with the country level authorities. > Another thing that Dave pointed out to me was that DNS traffic isn't > really all that taxing, so the benefits would be minimal. :-) He's right about the traffic. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #2: Sat Dec 9 19:14:38 MET 1995