Re: [sitefinder-tech-discuss] Pseudo code please

[Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>]

At 12:18 PM -0700 10/22/03, bmanning@karoshi.com wrote:
> 	Yo!  both of you....
>
> 	there is and has nearly always  has been ambiguity
> 	in what is a host name and a domain name.  you provide
> 	the following:
>
> 		foo.example.com
>
> 	that looks like three labels that would be registered in
> 	the DNS.  which of those labels comprise the host name
> 	and which comprise the domain name?  explain your reasoning

Umm.  I don't have a good answer for that.  From the user interface 
standpoint (which is the particular problem I'm coming from) I don't 
really care.  My user has just said, "Here's the name of the machine 
I want to do x with".  I want to validate what they told me.  I may 
not be able to do "x" right now, but even if I can, I don't want to 
just tell them that the provided host name timed out, or didn't 
provide the service.  That's not the right answer.  The first check I 
need to do is to see if the host name they gave me *exists*.  In the 
past, I did that by looking up the A record.  Now that solution isn't 
going to work.  I want to know what will.
--
Kee Hinckley
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.

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