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Re: [ga] Domains are not the equivalent of DNS.
At 22:06 15/04/03, Karl Auerbach wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
> > Domains are a way of mapping alpha-numeric labels to hosts/endpoints
> > (x).
>
>I don't quite agree.
>Fully qualified domain names (FQDN) are more than simply alpha-numeric.
>The relevant RFC's define the character set as being all 256 possible
>patterns in 8-bit octets. The alphanumeric limitation only applies when
>the name is somehow associated with a "hostname".
To illustrate this, may be can you click http://www.bravå.nu.
The Technical Manager of ".nu" is said to be named Mokapetris.
Can someone confirm?
jfc
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