Sean Doran writes:
instead we treat it as (leaving out the '<' '>' stuff out of laziness):
<w><h><a><t><e><v><e><r><.><c><o><m>
and look up like this:
ask a ROOT nameserver for M NSes ask a M nameserver for O NSes ... ask a <w> nameserver for appropriate info
that will scale to a huge number of generally unformatted labels for things.
Indeed, but this makes many assumptions, like that all of these machines will always be up. Having so many machines is just asking for more trouble; more points of failure. And in this case, each nameserver is potentially a single point of failure.
This strikes me as a practical way of moving towards ".Earth" and ".Alt" and thousands of other "top-level-domains".
Blech, not all that pleasent a concept, although with the incredible polution of namespace that is happen, it's probably one of the only options. Alec -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ |Alec Peterson - chuckie@panix.com | Panix Public Access Internet and UNIX| |Network Administrator | New York City, NY | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+