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What you describe is clearly familiar to any Java programmers out there, but it actually made me think of UUCP mail routing, which used to be a bit like that -
by bshimmin 12y ago
What you describe is clearly familiar to any Java programmers out there, but it actually made me think of UUCP mail routing, which used to be a bit like that - the hosts would go from left to right, separated by bangs, and ending in the user. Some details here: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag/node192.html http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag/node192.html
What we have now is obviously much friendlier to the end user, given it has no reliance on remembering or understanding the network topology!
- danellis 12y agoIt's more like the old JANET domain names, that looked like UK.AC.MAN.CS.R5.
- bshimmin 12y agoAh yes, I remember those (dimly!)... though if you were sending mail to them it was still `user@` at the start. I don't remember when JANET reversed their ordering to match everyone else's - mid-nineties, maybe?
- danellis 12y agoWikipedia says it started hosting IP traffic in 1991, so that's probably when they started using DNS.