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It didn't have to be that order for DNS, JANET NRS [1] had the most authoritative part on the left. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS https://en.wiki
by rjsw 7y ago
It didn't have to be that order for DNS, JANET NRS [1] had the most authoritative part on the left.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS
- xyz20200102 7y agoAccording to Paul Mockapetris who designed the DNS, domain names are little-endian to make autocompletion easier and to allow unqualified "local" names (e.g. "bilbo" instead of "bilbo.cs.college.edu").