On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:48:56AM -0700, Peter Risdon wrote:
The following article explains how to delegate sub domains to name
servers using bind. I can't find an equivalent for djbdns and suspect
there might be a limitation in that software:
The Delegating names to another server portion of
* stheg olloydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1157 00:57]:
.. Generally, however,
the tertiary domain level is the system's function: www, ftp, mail,
etc. if the system is public.
nitpick
the function is often the leftmost component, not the tertiary - plenty
of domains have more than 2 domain
: Every unique combination of subdomain.domain.tld could point to an
: arbitray other URL or IP.
: For example
: us.510.mail.example.com = example.com
: de.510.mail.example.com = europe.mail.example.com
I guess my question is this...
if 'us' is the name of the node (machine) and 'example.com' is
Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
: Every unique combination of subdomain.domain.tld could point to an
: arbitray other URL or IP.
: For example
: us.510.mail.example.com = example.com
: de.510.mail.example.com = europe.mail.example.com
I guess my question is this...
if 'us' is the name of the node
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:08:06PM +0100, Hexren wrote:
: location. 510 could identify a rack or a datacenter so that
: us.510.mail.example.com means a mail server in the datecenter with
: the id 510 which serves the United States.
So 'us.510.mail' is an atomic, arbitrary identifier. All three
Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:08:06PM +0100, Hexren wrote:
: location. 510 could identify a rack or a datacenter so that
: us.510.mail.example.com means a mail server in the datecenter with
: the id 510 which serves the United States.
So 'us.510.mail' is an atomic, arbitrary
Hexren wrote:
JM On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:08:06PM +0100, Hexren wrote:
JM : location. 510 could identify a rack or a datacenter so that
JM : us.510.mail.example.com means a mail server in the datecenter with
JM : the id 510 which serves the United States.
JM So 'us.510.mail' is an atomic,
the zone description listed was pretty good.
Basically, the leftmost name in a fully qualified domain name is the
host (which could really be an alias or something) and the rest is
the domain name. So for example
u17.us.mail.somecompany.com
u17 is the host (in this fictional account, a
* Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1140 15:40]:
Hexren wrote:
JM On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:08:06PM +0100, Hexren wrote:
JM : location. 510 could identify a rack or a datacenter so that
JM : us.510.mail.example.com means a mail server in the datecenter with
JM : the id 510 which serves the
Dick Davies wrote:
* Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1140 15:40]:
Hexren wrote:
JM On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:08:06PM +0100, Hexren wrote:
JM : location. 510 could identify a rack or a datacenter so that
JM : us.510.mail.example.com means a mail server in the datecenter with
JM : the id 510 which
Dick Davies wrote:
* Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1140 15:40]:
Hexren wrote:
JM On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:08:06PM +0100, Hexren wrote:
JM : location. 510 could identify a rack or a datacenter so that
JM : us.510.mail.example.com means a mail server in the datecenter with
JM : the id 510 which
* Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1153 16:53]:
For example, I can create a host in example.com called
us.510.mail
and you can't stop me (evil laughter).
Sent the RFC mail prematurely...
RFC 952 says:
quote A name (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string
up to 24
it was said:
* stheg olloydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1157 00:57]:
.. Generally, however,
the tertiary domain level is the system's function: www, ftp, mail,
etc. if the system is public.
nitpick
the function is often the leftmost component, not the tertiary -
plenty
of domains have more
JM AFAIK, a fully qualified domain name is like
JM machine.domain.xxx
JM but what about addresses like
JM us.510.mail.yahoo.com??
JM Is there any hierarchy to the names in this case?
JM jm
-
I would think that viewing mail.yahoo.com as
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:48:49AM +0100, Hexren wrote:
: Now add to that picture that every subdomain could be an alias for another
: domain or point to an IP address, which incase of the IP address is
: meaning a real machine.
So that means that the right-most portion of the subdomain would be
it was said:
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:48:49AM +0100, Hexren wrote:
: Now add to that picture that every subdomain could be an alias for
another
: domain or point to an IP address, which incase of the IP address is
: meaning a real machine.
So that means that the right-most portion of the
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