RFC 1712:DNS Encoding of Geographical Location
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... database of information, such as geographical location of internet hosts, is to delegate responsibility to local domain ...


... The Internet continues to grow at an ever increasing rate with IP numbers allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis. Deciding when ...
... and how to setup a database of geographical information about internet hosts presented a number of options. The uumap project [UU85 ...
... service it was decided to defer this until this service gains wider use and acceptance within the Internet community. ...
... be used to disseminate virtually any information. The most commonly used DNS implementation is the Berkeley Internet Name Domain server BIND [UCB89 ...


... University of California, "BIND: Berkeley Internet Name Domain Server", 1989. ...



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