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Re: Wasted space
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () scfn thpl lib fl us>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 09:46:55 -0400
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 04:33:57PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
domain names are finite. 254 char limit drawn from an 8-bit char set.$ bc 256^254 49311837877366649323600580884811328064642490645928167773636391338386\ 00942820417921935608125537553934278674005267623599165972833122328326\ 58311281622107670335702985799671951234310153163915857728680359766210\ 69439038508288907840911493166867209378778336289339669574030006474132\ 65364309855012299736389026478635486131947843882498538312526670313197\ 24958132568898411896638150110768600863536200871492771279798342546336\ 76061407041110011837155687183077462622686306172536143846476937385117\ 82868915581833149250995402477804959206649465186461985527496130098804\ 49926596639031121858756000207590413184793166384097191709192063287296 256^4 4294967296your point?
His point was fairly obvious to _me_, Randy: Yes, domain names are not truly "infinite", but they're much _less_ non-infinite than IP addresses. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra () baylink com Member of the Technical Staff Buy copies of The New Hackers Dictionary. The Suncoast Freenet Give them to all your friends. Tampa Bay, Florida http://www.ccil.org/jargon/ +1 813 790 7592
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- Re: Wasted space, (continued)
- Re: Wasted space Randy Bush (Apr 29)
- Re: Wasted space Austin Schutz (Apr 29)
- Re: Wasted space Randy Bush (Apr 29)
- Re: Wasted space Austin Schutz (Apr 29)
- Re: Wasted space Derek J. Balling (Apr 29)
- Re: Wasted space bmanning (Apr 29)
- Re: Wasted space Jeremy Porter (Apr 29)
- Re: Wasted space Randy Bush (Apr 30)
- Re: Wasted space Austin Schutz (Apr 29)
- Re: Wasted space Randy Bush (Apr 29)
- RE: Wasted space Roeland M.J. Meyer (Apr 29)
- Re: Wasted space Randy Bush (Apr 29)
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- Re: Wasted space Jay R. Ashworth (Apr 30)
- Re: Wasted space Jeremy Porter (Apr 29)
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