[ih] .UK vs .GB

[jeanjour at comcast.net (John Day)]

Worked fine at the time.  And was independent of whether one did DNS or some sort of directory.

> On Apr 15, 2018, at 12:36, Paul Vixie <paul at redbarn.org> wrote:
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> John Day wrote:
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>> Of course, the Internet screwed up DNS by making it a macro-resolver
>> for IP addresses rather than a directory and making it something the
>> application had to deal with. ...
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> the design had many flaws, but remains the best example of "the art of the possible" i have seen in my short lifetime. it was good enough, and that's why it beat out every alternative which might have been the best.
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>> This is something the first Unix system on the Net (1975) got right.
>> They hacked file_io and extended the file system, so that the syntax
>> was ?<file desc>  = open(<host name>/<application-name>)?  That would
>> have been a much better direction for the future than sockets.
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> maybe. that approach later came to pass in linux, in devfs. i am not sure i would have wanted to try for it in a 16-bit address space though.
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> P Vixie
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