FQDN

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Pete Ehlke <pde at ehlke.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 05:46:03PM -0500, John Hascall wrote:
>> 
>>   But it is easier to remember and use:  www.house.gov
>>   than it is to use: 143.231.86.196
>> 
>>   However if the name was some nonsense like:
>> 
>>     www.citizens-democratic.web-interface.house-of-representatives.government.district-of-columbia.federal.united-states-of-america.intarweb
>> 
>>   you might find people prefering to remember the number. :)
>> 
> Which is one of the reasons that most attempts to turn the DNS into a
> lookup service like the (US) Yellow Pages have failed. It's a hard
> problem. I'd *love* it if there was a simple heuristic for determining
> the URL for the web site for Alice's Restaurant of La Honda, California
> (as opposed to any *other* Alice's Restaurant), but there isn't. The DNS
> doesn't encapsulate that information well.

Unless one make use of the built-in hierarcy :

alices.la-honda.ca.us  or possibly alices.restaurant.la-honda.ca.us



But trying to group everything under .com will only create namecollisions 
except for the few well-known trademarks.


> -Pete


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