Re: your mail

Matthew Gream (M.Gream@nospam.uts.edu.au)
Thu, 11 Aug 94 16:51:46 EST

"Keith Chan" wrote:
>
> Does anybody know where I can get RFC for the naming convention of the
> machines?
>

The convention is fairly intuitive, but the following RFC should
describe it.

# 0819 Domain naming convention for Internet user applications. Z. Su,
# J. Postel. Aug-01-1982. (Format: TXT=35314 bytes)

(ftp://munnari.oz.au/rfc/rfc-819.Z)

If you're referring to naming in terms of service offering (which I
don't think is covered in the RFC) then the convention is to use
CNAMEs in the form of <applic-level-protocol>.subdomain.<etc>, where
application level protocols are services such as ftp, mail, gopher ...
etc. Obviously the CNAME points to a physical machine. FTI: Bellovin
suggests these should be encoded in network layer addresses in IPng.

double-blah,
Matthew.

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