From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 12 17:09:01 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA04884 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 17:09:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay5.UU.NET (relay5.UU.NET [192.48.96.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA04876 Tue, 12 Dec 1995 17:08:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from uucp2.UU.NET by relay5.UU.NET with SMTP id QQztwe05709; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 20:08:50 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: Received: from uanet.UUCP by uucp2.UU.NET with UUCP/RMAIL ; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 20:08:51 -0500 Received: by crocodil.monolit.kiev.ua; Wed, 13 Dec 95 03:05:36 +0200 Received: (from dk@localhost) by dog.farm.org (8.6.11/dk#3) id CAA23275; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 03:00:00 +0200 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 03:00:00 +0200 From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk 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 .freebsd.org Newsgroups: cs-monolit.gated.lists.freebsd.hackers Reply-To: dk+@ua.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In article 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. 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.