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... growing number of centralized databases - typically Web or Usenet
News "wanderers", or attempting to infer the existence of network
services from whatever DNS information may be available. The former
approach is not practical in some cases, notably when the entity ...
... DNS or some complementary directory service would
provide a means for programs to determine automatically the network
services which are offered at a particular Internet domain, the
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... RFC-1035] lookup capability, which makes it possible to determine
the network services offered at a given domain name. In practice
this is not widely used, perhaps because of the absence of a suitable
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... DNS aliases for the most
popular network services that currently exist (see the "Special
Cases" section below). For protocols that are not explicitly listed
in this document, the protocol specification ...
... is sometimes possible to "guess" the domain names associated with an
organization's network services, though this is becoming more
difficult as the number of organizations registered in the DNS
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... administrators are encouraged to use these common names for the
network services they run. They will make it easier for outsiders to
find information about your organization, and also make it easier for
you to move services ...