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From: MADJK@ROHVM1.BITNET (John G Kinker)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Host Naming Question
Message-ID: <90242.124745MADJK@ROHVM1.BITNET>
Date: 30 Aug 90 16:47:45 GMT
Organization: Rohm and Haas Company
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We are setting up name servers and are currently trying to decide what to call
various hosts.  For sake of discussion assume that a network, ignoring
routers, looks like:

                        ----internet-----
                                 |
                       hosta     |       hostb
                         |       |         |
                      --------subnet0----------
                      |                       |
             ------subnet1-----        ----subnet2----
             |                |        |             |
           hostc            hostd    hoste         hostf

Now, if this is a business whose registered internet name is enterprise
then to the internet community it is ENTERPRISE.COM.  That means, I
think, that the nodes might be named:

                     hosta.subnet0.enterprise.com
                     hostb.subnet0.enterprise.com
                     hostc.subnet1.enterprise.com
                     hostd.subnet1.enterprise.com
                     hoste.subnet2.enterprise.com

I also think it would be reasonable to name hosts a and b:

                     hosta.enterprise.com
                     hostb.enterprise.com

Now the question:  If all of the above is correct and valid, could one of
the nodes on subnet0 be named just enterprise.com and still have all of
the routing to other nodes work correctly?

John G. Kinker                   MADJK at ROHVM1
Computer Systems Associate
Rohm and Haas Company
PO Box 219; Bldg 64C, Rm C303
Bristol, PA 19007
215-785-8752