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Re: [DNSOP] [internet-drafts@ietf.org: New Version Notification for draft-sullivan-dns-class-useless-01.txt]

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Thu, 17 March 2016 10:56 UTC

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Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
>
> When you try to explain to novices that the DNS matches going down the
> tree, label by label, and that the top-most label is at the end, you
> immediately get a question as to why the labels are in the wrong
> order.

Like postal addresses :-)

Tony.
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