Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 22:28:34 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking chapter.sgml Message-ID: <3BCD1702.D6F16191@DougBarton.net> References: <200110161849.f9GIntT12835@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Murray Stokely wrote: > > murray 2001/10/16 11:49:55 PDT > > Modified files: > en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking > chapter.sgml > Log: > s/foobardomain/foobar/ > > Example domain names that are used inline should be kept as short as > possible. Domain names can not be broken up with hyphenation at > syllable boundaries for obvious reasons, and using 12 unbreakable > characters is bound to cause an hbox overflow when creating justified > output with TeX (the print backend). > > Revision Changes Path > 1.105 +41 -41 doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml To make Garrett's comment a little more useful, RFC 2606 (http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cs/Services/rfc/rfc-text/rfc2606.txt) specifies a set of domain names to use for examples. Specifically, in this context we should be using example.{com|net|org}. Those domain names are specifically reserved for this kind of thing. Additionally, by convention example.net is used to indicate a provider, such as an ISP; and example.{com|org} are used to indicate customers, and/or end users. I'm sorry for not bringing this up sooner, it's long been on my list of things I'd like to work on, but haven't had time. If there is anything I can do to help, let me know. Doug -- "We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail." - George W. Bush, President of the United States September 20, 2001 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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