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In article <9224017.23439@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes:
| | Could you really see the demand getting that big that you'd want
| | a seperate letter to break them up?
| 
| Even if it was divided based on states - yes - I'd hate to be the poor
| sucker stuck with the job of maintaining a list of every home computer
| in Melbourne, let alone the rest of the state.

How can we divide names of private machines into smaller domains for
easing DNS administration, while not being geographically based.

1) Have 26 (36 if you include digits) subdomains of priv.au, the
subdomain being a single letter and allocated by being the same as the
first (or last?) letter of the hostname, e.g.,

	fred.f.priv.au		blurt6.6.priv.au
	hacker.h.priv.au	snorer.r.priv.au


Yes, I know it's lousy, but I think any scheme for such a potentially
large collections of hosts is likely to be.

2) If machines were restricted to being named after people, we could
use their initial, and I could have vance.c.priv.au.

3) The subdomain of priv.au could be derived by hashing the hostname.

4) We could use a function of the date it was registered.

5) Or ...

-- Christopher