Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 03:00:00 +0200 From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@dog.farm.org> To: mitayai@dreaming.org (Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe) Cc: jkh@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A call for DNS secondaries to server for <dom>.freebsd.org Message-ID: <QQztwe05709.199512130108@relay5.UU.NET>
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In article <inj.13-30c8dfbe-748c@bee.cs.kiev.ua> you wrote: > > In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said > > > > > > I'm not sure what to do about the U.S. ftp servers except perhaps > > > to be U.S.-centric about it and just use the freebsd.org domain space > > > directly for U.S. resources. Would people prefer to see ftp.us.freebsd.org? > > 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. > Hmmm... here in Canada it usually is required to be incorporated to get > just .ca (its much easier to do, say, .on.ca which is on a provincial > level... but, i can see what i can come up with. in Ukraine (.ua), there isn't org.ua domain at all (not that we haven't thought about it - "we" means domain administrators, incl. me as admin-c). Alternatively, you can apply for freebsd.com.ua ;-) (btw, is FreeBSD Inc. an officially registered legal entity?) Anyway, I think that you couldn't get all the freebsd.org.XX, so you should settle with different scheme. XX.ftp.freebsd.org could be good. -- No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife in the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.
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