On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 11:16:58AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Really? Have you seen proposals for handling internet growth? > Hostnames are already getting longer and longer. I was once at > "unmvax". Then that became "unmvax.unm.edu". Now my laptop has the > attractive address "vp190095.reshsg.uci.edu". Indeed, BSD added a > field to utmp for the remote host name, and that field (go figure) was > something like 12 characters, and so major hassle ensued to make it > bigger.
And Thomas doesn't live in Wales, UK, where we notice: llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk (that's the name of a village). I also read at long-domain-name.com, that marketing people are jumping at long host names to increase their results at search engines. They just embed keywords into the domain name. Those are not meant to be seen or entered by humans. And this is just for the domain name. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
