DNS delegation based on both location and organization

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Fri Sep 9 09:49:01 UTC 2005


At 11:00 AM +0200 2005-09-09, Brad Knowles wrote:

>>>   	But keep in mind that you don't want to list too many
>>>   authoritative servers (typically no more than four or five),
>>
>>   You need many more servers to run into problems, even with very long
>>   queries (see http://w6.nic.fr/dnsv6/resp-size.html if you intend to
>>   calculate).
>
>  	The OP is talking about using some pretty long hostnames and
>  domain names, of which the middle will be chopped out of each to
>  handle the city name.  This will really hurt domain name compression.

	Sorry, my bad.  The organizational unit name is going to be after 
the city name and before the rest of the domain name, and *that* will 
really hurt domain name compression.  Right idea, but I was not 
correct in how I expressed it.

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