Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:23:56 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Hexren <me@hexren.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4 part domain names Message-ID: <20041124152355.GD11648@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <5315017844.20041124160806@hexren.net> References: <20041123233501.GA82229@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <5557305861.20041124004849@hexren.net> <20041124000014.GA83249@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <8763344284.20041124022927@hexren.net> <20041124141737.GA11648@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <5315017844.20041124160806@hexren.net>
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On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:08:06PM +0100, Hexren wrote: : location. 510 could identify a rack or a datacenter so that : us.510.mail.example.com means "a mail server in the datecenter with : the id 510 which serves the United States". So 'us.510.mail' is an atomic, arbitrary identifier. All three as a unit identify a certain node, and are selected purely for convenience of human operators, right? I'm just making sure that the network doesn't treat 'us.510.mail' any different than it would treat 'foobar', right? I was thinking in java/python mode, where each 'dot-level' actually pointed to a node in the network, while what I understand now is that once you go beyond the domain name, the way you handle the other nodes is just up to the sysadmin, and is purely for human readability, right? jm -- My other computer is your Windows box.
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