Re: Provider-based DNS naming?

[Piet Beertema <]

    Hmm, does this only apply to real domains or also to hostnames which
Only to real domains.

    is very usual practice for dialin/SLIP type of providers? It basically
    comes down to the same thing. 
      company.provider.top	A	a.b.c.d
    or
      company.provider.top	NS	some.where.else
    in my view is kind of the same, at least in binding the companies
    domain name and email address to the provider. Even in NL the first
    one is common practice.
As far as I know this only goes for private persons,
not for companies. Of course companies can obtain a
mailbox on a service provider's host, making their
e-mail address user@localhost, but that
is something I don't consider a real domain. And if
a company has a SLIP link to a provider, the company
can have its own domain and have the SLIP link act
as just the carrier for the domain, just like in the
"past" UUCP acted as domain carrier.


	Piet