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- From: kevin@cfctech.cfc.com (Kevin Darcy)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.225136.2523@cfctech.cfc.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:51:36 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.020424.17342@cfctech.cfc.com> <X9i3VB2w165w@ssc60.sbwk.nj.us>
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- In article <X9i3VB2w165w@ssc60.sbwk.nj.us> tonyd@ssc60.sbwk.nj.us (Tony DeBari) writes:
- >kevin@cfctech.cfc.com (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >
- >> In article <lgXLrA1BBh107h@ssc60.sbwk.nj.us> tonyd@ssc60.sbwk.nj.us (Tony DeB
- >> >What would be wrong with a .PRI domain for unaffiliated, private sites?
- >> >Everyone has at least an MX record in the DNS, it doesn't imply a specific
- >> >transfer protocol like .UUCP, and there is no geographic hierarchy so a
- >> >site can be physically moved without having to re-register its domain name.
- >>
- >> The problem is that if every Tom, Dick and Harriet with a PC registers as a
- >> second-level name under .pri, then you end up with a DNS zone containing
- >> literally millions of RR's, which are all being queried constantly. Massive
- >> capacity and adminstrative problems. Zone transfers would be a bitch. Lots of
- >> name conflicts. In short, the idea makes for short, easy-to-type mail
- >> addresses, but breaks the scalability of global DNS.
- >
- >I think you might be overestimating a bit here. Although there are
- >millions of PC's out there, I suspect only a small fraction of them
- >are, or would want to become, sites connected to "the net". Thousands
- >maybe, but not millions.
- >
- >I do agree that there is the potential for a problem, but the same
- >potential exists for other top-level domains, especially .com. What
- >keeps .com from getting out of control (besides the fact that businesses
- >are failing left and right :-) ?
-
- It could get out of control, in theory, but whereas the average node count
- for a domain in the proposed .pri domain is likely to be only slightly higher
- than 1, the average node count for .com domains has traditionally been much
- higher than that. So I'd expect .pri to become a problem far sooner.
-
- Besides, we could always split up .com between purveyors of "goods" and
- "services", right? Isn't that distinction obvious in all cases? :-)
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