JM> : Every unique combination of subdomain.domain.tld could point to an
JM> : arbitray other URL or IP.
JM> : For example
JM> : us.510.mail.example.com = example.com
JM> : de.510.mail.example.com = europe.mail.example.com
JM> I guess my question is this...
JM> if 'us' is the name of the node (ma
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, arbitrary ide
JM> : Every unique combination of subdomain.domain.tld could point to an
JM> : arbitray other URL or IP.
JM> : For example
JM> : us.510.mail.example.com = example.com
JM> : de.510.mail.example.com = europe.mail.example.com
JM> I guess my question is this...
JM> if 'us' is the name of the node (ma
JM> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:48:49AM +0100, Hexren wrote:
JM> : Now add to that picture that every subdomain could be an alias for another
JM> : domain or point to an IP address, which incase of the IP address is
JM> : meaning a real machine.
JM> So that means that the right-most portion of the
