4 part domain names

[Dick Davies]

* Peter Risdon <peter at circlesquared.com> [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 United States".
> >
> >JM> So 'us.510.mail' is an atomic, arbitrary identifier.  All three as a 
> >unit
> >JM> identify a certain node, and are selected purely for convenience of 
> >human
> >JM> operators, right?
> >
> >I would say yes.
> >
> >
> >JM> I'm just making sure that the network doesn't treat 'us.510.mail' any
> >JM> different than it would treat 'foobar', right?
> >
> >I would say yes too.
> 
> 
> How does this square with the fact, as I understand it, that I can 
> delegate authority for mail.example.com to new nameservers which can 
> then publish host information about this zone?

That's got nothing to do with the network.
For example, I can create a host in example.com called
 
us.510.mail

and you can't stop me (evil laughter).


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