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bnegreve
on Feb 17, 2013
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How domains became backwards
Not sure, the numeric notation is little endian wheras DNSs are big endian.
B-Con
on Feb 17, 2013
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That's the point. Numeric notation is right-to-left. It was around long before the concept of endianness.
bnegreve
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What does it mean to be right-to-left? If it means that least significant values are on the right side and most significant ones on the left side, then domain names are left-to-right (as opposed to numeric notation).
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