Dots in a DNS name...

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:22:15AM +1100, William Charles wrote:
> Quick question. Suppose that we have a DNS domain
> 'people.somewhere.someplace.com'. Suppose further that all A/PTR
> 'entries' within this domain are of the form 'forename.surname'. i.e..
> 'fred.bloggs.somewhere.somplace.com'.
> 
> What're the general feelings regarding that dot between the person's
> names? Whilst it certainly works, I don't get a happy, smiley feeling
> from it. Am I wrong and just being overly suspicious/cautious?

Perfectly legal.  Understand that you are declaring a subdomain bloggs
with a single entry fred [or multiple entries if you have many
bloggses].  You are just declaring them all within the ZONE
somewhere.somplace.com.  [sp?]

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