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Randy Bush wrote: >> I hear it was one of the first Internet's ideas - to declare well-known >> addresses in addition to the well known ports. > and notice that, in general, it did not catch on. and in the few places it > did, it's been a continual pain in the ass. bad-idea fairy strikes again. Well, the idea to attach FQDNs to services, not to computers, is pretty sound; and could (if implemented) concievably replace lots of ad-hockery like MX RRs, "virtual" HTTP servers, etc, etc. WKS RRs weren't doing that - the boundary between host names and service names was still in place; so WKS RRs were simply redundant. Following the logic of lazylution they quietly died off. --vadim
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