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Re: [Asrg] a plea for more hierarchy in DNS
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:40:44AM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote:
> However we noticed that even mailserver farms are named as braindamaged
> and hierarchy breaking as the example above. Why does it have to be
> mail-[0-9][0-9].iinet.net.au
> instead of
> host[0-9][09-].mail.iinet.net.au
Because when you are an admin inside the organisation you'll use only
the hostname and not the FQDN most of the time. And you don't want to
ask yourself all the time whether "host165" is "host165.mail" or
"host165.web" or whatever (which depends on how your resolver is configured).
Jochen
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