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- From: vthrc@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Danny Thomas)
- Subject: (Q) service aliases; pros/cons
- Message-ID: <vthrc.716512595@brolga>
- Keywords: domain name alias service DNS
- Sender: news@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (USENET News System)
- Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:16:35 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- Fellow Internetters,
- In the near future we'll be getting our first UN*X
- system (currently only PCs/Macs) and intend it to offer various services
- - NTP, NNTP, etc. I've never really had to administer domain names
- previously, but my preference is to define an alias for each service
- offered rather than configure each client to bind to a particular host.
- This is a prejudice I've developed from dealing with email addresses - I
- just don't like the idea of addresses tied to a host, a person's name @
- organizational-unit name seems more logical. At a guess we'd be looking
- at:
- ftp.vthrc.uq.oz.au (ie the primary/preferred FTP site in the domain)
- ntp.vthrc.uq.oz.au
- nntp.vthrc.uq.oz.au
- x500.vthrc.uq.oz.au (or quipu.vthrc.uq.oz.au)
- ph.vthrc.uq.oz.au
- pop3.vthrc.uq.oz.au
- imap.vthrc.uq.oz.au
- smtp-relay.vthrc.uq.oz.au
-
- Those services are ones I consider centralized within a domain in
- comparison to say NFS where connections are made to specific hosts. I
- guess this division begins to breakdown as a service becomes distributed,
- eg for redundancy (NTP?), but in these cases I assume each client is
- configured with a list of machines (or aliases) to try, probably ordered
- by preference.
-
- Anyway I'd to hear what other people think about this area or
- pointers to FAQs where this has been previously covered. I'd appreciate
- email copies of any netnews replies as the news-server is not as reliable
- as I'd like.
-
-
- cheers,
- X500: @c=AU [I'm about to update VTHRC entries, soon...]
- @o=University of Queensland
- @ou=Physiology and Pharmacology Department
- @ou=Vision Touch and Hearing
- @cn=Danny Thomas
- @rfc822Mailbox=vthrc@cc.uq.oz.au
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