Stephen Turner wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Jim Sander wrote:
>
> > Actually, this is something I have thought about a lot recently- it
> > seems to me that it would be a nice feature to only include the top-level
> > domain, and then one more part...
> >
> > For example, if you resolve a name to "statlab.cam.ac.uk" simply list it
> > as "ac.uk" - or maybe "cam.ac.uk" to cover things like ".co.uk" Maybe a
> > runtime thing, like "SIGDOMPARTS 3" which would give you three "dots
> > worth" of domain information from the top level. (cam.ac.uk in this case)
> >
>
> SUBDOMAIN *.* (or *.*.*) does exactly this.
>
> As Jeremy Wadsack pointed out:
> > most non-government U.S. sites have one fewer "dot worth" of info than
> > the rest of the world.
>
> So one could do SUBDOMAIN *.com, *.*.uk etc. Actually it's not even as
> simple as Jeremy implies. For example, Germany takes the US approach --
> so www.uni-heidelberg.de but www.cam.ac.uk.
this is not what we are talking about...the SUBDOMAIN only seems to work
with the "Domain Report" while we are trying to combine things in the
"Host Report" therefore HOSTALIAS seems like the only thing that
combines
them.
pac
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