FQDN

Paul Vixie vixie at sa.vix.com
Sun Jul 27 20:08:02 UTC 2003


Pete Ehlke <pde at ehlke.net> writes:

> Which is one of the reasons that most attempts to turn the DNS into a
> lookup service like the (US) Yellow Pages have failed. It's a hard
> problem. I'd *love* it if there was a simple heuristic for determining
> the URL for the web site for Alice's Restaurant of La Honda, California
> (as opposed to any *other* Alice's Restaurant), but there isn't. The DNS
> doesn't encapsulate that information well.

DNS was not designed to do that, and cannot be made to do that.  X.500 or
LDAP are better examples of how to do that, in direction if not in scope
or usability.

And by the by, Alice's Restaurant is in Sky Londa, not La Honda.
-- 
Paul Vixie


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