"Julian" == Julian Mehnle
"RE: Architectural issues with the SPF specification"
Thu, 6 Jan 2005 01:01:10 +0100
Julian> 195.30.85.225 has many names, probably more than 100,
Julian> including "io.mehnle.net", "mail.mehnle.net", and
Julian> "mehnle.net". I don't see a problem here. Do you?
I would be inclined to use "mehnle.net" as the collective without an A
RR and the others as synonyms for a particular host with an A RR and
CNAME RRs or multiple A RRs or both.
>> [...] I only wanted to suggest _not to encourage_ the
>> overloading, not to go hammer and tongs on a crusade against
>> it.
Julian> What overloading? Sorry if I'm being stupid.
A formal definition from Object Oriented programming is often given as
something like:
Multiple definitions of an object operation. Different input
arguments (signatures) requesting the same operation name
(message type) cause different methods (functions) to be
invoked.
By extension or slang the term _overloading_ is used to indicate an
ambiguous use of a name, word, label, or some such. Also I think that
in shell scripting, something like
cat=~/bin/my-super-cat
might be referred to as overloading.
I'm sorry if my usage has been abstruse.
jam