15 Jun
2022
15 Jun
'22
6:04 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 15, 2022, 1:57 AM Michael Kjörling <michael(a)kjorling.se> wrote:
On 15 Jun 2022 09:53 +0800, from stu(a)remphrey.net
(Stuart Remphrey):
This definitely feels like it extends the joke a tad too far. :-)
- Dan C.
Though I think Norman was drawing an analogy
between A-records/hard links
and CNAME/symlinks, then observing that prior to 4.2BSD in 1983 there
were
no symlinks only hard links, ditto CNAMEs in
RFC-882, also 1983.
So if we're going back further, we shouldn't use them (it breaks down a
little when considering A-records though, since we can't easily not use
those!)
By much that same line of reasoning, tuhs.org shouldn't have any MX
records either because the MX RRtype was introduced as recently as in
1986 (Wikipedia puts it at RFCs 973 and 974 [1] but without wide use
until "in the early 1990s"). Let alone a web presence because HTTP and
HTML came along even later. :-)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record#Historical_background