4 part domain names

Peter Risdon peter at circlesquared.com
Wed Nov 24 07:30:40 PST 2004


Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> 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?
> 

No, I don't think this is right. mail can be a zone beneath example.com, 
510 a zone beneath that and us a hostname.

This host might be aliased to foobar.example.com but it doesn't have to be.

Peter.


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