[ih] bang paths, was Domain Names

Scott Brim sbrim at cisco.com
Thu Jan 21 05:06:05 PST 2010


Dave CROCKER allegedly wrote on 01/20/2010 17:55 EST:
> As I recall, Bitnet was a dotted sequence of hostnames, but I don't
> remember whether it had global hostnaming or was route-based.

I don't recall us doing more than just simple host names, e.g.
"swb at CORNELLA".  Hierarchy might have been added later when it was
running over IP?



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