On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Michael Packer wrote:
>
> Stephen Turner wrote:
> >
> >
> > So one could do SUBDOMAIN *.com, *.*.uk etc. Actually it's not even as
> > simple as Jeremy implies. For example, Germany takes the US approach --
> > so www.uni-heidelberg.de but www.cam.ac.uk.
>
> this is not what we are talking about...the SUBDOMAIN only seems to work
> with the "Domain Report" while we are trying to combine things in the
> "Host Report" therefore HOSTALIAS seems like the only thing that
> combines them.
>
Well, I know. The point about my final paragraph, however, was that the Host
Report was the wrong place to look for this information, and that one should
use the Domain Report instead.
I've never quite understood why people think the Host Report is the natural
place for this. I suppose people regard .uk and ac.uk as domains, but
statslab.cam.ac.uk as almost a host (even though there is no host of that
name -- they're all x.statslab.cam.ac.uk). But then what is cam.ac.uk?
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Stephen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
Statistical Laboratory, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, England
"Ad infinitum, if not ad nauseam." (Interviewee, BBC Radio 4)
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