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- From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald)
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 02:06:37 GMT
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- > > 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.
-
- tonyd@ssc60.sbwk.nj.us (Tony DeBari) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- It's dangerous to assume things like this when you design a new network.
- The original Internet was designed to allow for 254 networks (more than
- enough, right?), and was later hacked to allow for 16K medium-sized
- networks, and now people who could be creating neat new services for us are
- spending lots of time trying to figure out what to do when that 16K runs
- out.
-
- If we need something like a .pri domain (or better, a misc.us), we can
- probably put something together that won't choke on its own success.
-
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