Re: OT: Old Stuff

At 5:00 PM +1200 4/4/02, Don Stokes wrote:

David Farrar wrote:

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The restriction was lifted by InternetNZ late last year. Don Stokes can explain far better than me why there used to be a ban on TLDs being registered at the 3rd level but basically it used to cause problems for some old servers.

Of the many times I've explained this one, I think this is the most appropriate:

[snip. Cogent explanation deleted] And dating back even further, at VUW we had a policy that no HOST part could be a TLD. W a a y back, there were domain-endian wars. JANET used mailbox(a)uk.co.host and the US (not yet the Internet) used mailbox(a)host.EDU. So, faced with mailbox(a)uk.co.es, was that JANET: host 'es' in the 'co' 2LD of the 'uk' TLD, or TCP: host 'uk' in the 'co' 2LD of the 'es' TLD? Since we had both SPEARNET (JANET style) and TCP/IP for a while, we enforced the host name restriction (actually, I think it was no hosts called COM/EDU/ORG/NET/MIL or any 2 letter host name). -- Michael Newbery Technical Specialist TelstraClear Limited - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog