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On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 04:33:57PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote: > >> domain names are finite. 254 char limit drawn from an 8-bit char set. > > $ bc > > 256^254 > > 49311837877366649323600580884811328064642490645928167773636391338386\ > > 00942820417921935608125537553934278674005267623599165972833122328326\ > > 58311281622107670335702985799671951234310153163915857728680359766210\ > > 69439038508288907840911493166867209378778336289339669574030006474132\ > > 65364309855012299736389026478635486131947843882498538312526670313197\ > > 24958132568898411896638150110768600863536200871492771279798342546336\ > > 76061407041110011837155687183077462622686306172536143846476937385117\ > > 82868915581833149250995402477804959206649465186461985527496130098804\ > > 49926596639031121858756000207590413184793166384097191709192063287296 > > > > 256^4 > > 4294967296 > > your point? His point was fairly obvious to _me_, Randy: Yes, domain names are not truly "infinite", but they're much _less_ non-infinite than IP addresses. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Buy copies of The New Hackers Dictionary. The Suncoast Freenet Give them to all your friends. Tampa Bay, Florida http://www.ccil.org/jargon/ +1 813 790 7592
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