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Re:This Weekend's DDoS Attack and What's in a (C)Name? by petee on Saturday July 08, 2017 @06:08PM (#14727433)
its not hierarchically wrong; services never required their own subdomain - example.com is just as valid a host as www.example.com

sure it is helpful for organization, but when was the last time you used ssh.example.com?

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Re:This Weekend's DDoS Attack and What's in a (C)Name? by Libre___ on Saturday July 08, 2017 @07:06PM (#14727622)
Don't get me wrong - it's in no way illegal to use A/AAAA-pointers in your zone root.

RFC 1034[0] however, argues for a tree-based structure and lays emphasis on the value of branching. It being 'wrong' might have been too strong a description, how about it being 'improper'?

When I've seen SSH access being offered as a network service and not as a means to administrate other services on a network it's often been under names such as 'shell.example.com' - not exactly your 'ssh' label but an approximation.

0. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1034

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