February 2003
slideset 1 -4
Naming History
n1970Õs
ARPANET
uHost.txt
maintained by the SRI-NIC
upulled
from a single machine
uProblems
Ftraffic
and load
FName
collisions
FConsistency
nDNS reated in 1983 by
Paul Mockapetris (RFCs 1034 and 1035),
modified, updated, and enhanced by a myriad of subsequent RFCs