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From: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: Is it possible to obtain all of the ip addresses correspoding to a FQDN?
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 19:09:13 -0400
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On 10/18/15 17:14, Lew Pitcher wrote:
> On Sunday October 18 2015 16:45, in comp.os.linux.networking, "Baho Utot"
> <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/18/15 14:32, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>> William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> writes:
>>>> IF he has specific names, then what you say is true. But he wanted to
>>>> know all of the computers under a certain domain I thought.
>>>> Now, it is confusing, since www.google.com is not a domain, and an FQDN
>>>> is not a domain,
>>>
>>> This is nonsense.  www.google.com is a domain name.  See RFC1034 for
>>> terminology.
>>>
>>
>> google.com is the domain name.
>
> google.com is also a host name.
>
>> www.google.com is a host name.
>
> and, (if google were in the mood) www.google.com could be a domain name as
> well.
>
>> www.google.com is NOT a domain name,
>
> Not that we know anyway. If we find such resolvable names as
> canada.www.google.com or sales.www.google.com, then we know that
> www.google.com is also a domain name.
>
>
> To illustrate:
>   - digitalfreehold.ca is a domain name.
>   - digitalfreehold.ca is also a host name.

digitalfreehold.ca should not be both a host name and domain name.

That non sense goes back to "our web master fiends" sometime around 1995

>   - pitcher.digitalfreehold.ca is a host name
>     within the digitalfreehold.ca domain
>

Yes