FQDN

[John Hascall]

> John Hascall wrote:
> > Why somebody would want to actually use such a thing escapges me though,
> > as the whole point of DNS is that names are easier than numbers.

> Ever since DNS was established people have been proposing ways to store
> other data in it. It is rarely the right solution but the infrastructure
> is already there. This is the usual reason for long domain names.
> 
> What is surprising is that with dynamic DNS being widely available
> people haven't got obviously more aggressive at this, I think these days
> the people who were proposing to put inappropriate things in the DNS are
> abusing HTTP instead.

   I've always been rather surprised that no decent, simple, general
   purpose distributed data mechanism has taken root.

John