Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 13:45:43 -0500 From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu> To: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A call for DNS secondaries to server for <dom>.freebsd.org Message-ID: <199512081845.NAA09157@hausdorff.math.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Dec 1995 15:51:46 GMT." <199512081551.PAA13026@cadair.elsevier.co.uk>
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> 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. > > What do you think? I can get the domain name and a name server sorted > out but not the actual mirror sites, not enough bandwidth. I agree with this logic, it also fits in with the problem that Jordan mentioned regarding the existing freebsd.org stuff in the US. Why bother changing stuff around when there's an easier, and arguably more intuitive alternative? At anyrate, I'll gladly secondary for the US... - Dan C.
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