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Re: [IETF] back by popular demand - a DNS calculator

2013-02-16 07:44:21


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On Feb 16, 2013, at 2:02 AM, Patrik Fältström <paf(_at_)frobbit(_dot_)se> wrote:


On 15 feb 2013, at 23:45, Warren Kumari <warren(_at_)kumari(_dot_)net> wrote:

Sure -- the DNS protocol *cannot* "handle any value in the octets" -- in 
fact, there are an *infinite* number of values it cannot handle *in the 
octets*. For example, it cannot handle 257. It also cannot handle 321, nor 
19.3...

Ok, it is obvious Friday...somewhere...

Once when being on IESG way back when I was tasked to write the response to 
the letter we got with a suggestion on an alternative solution for the 
"running out of IPv4 addresses" problem.

The proposal was to not stop counting at 255 in each of the four numbers 
separated by periods, but continue to (at least) 999.


That's also a solved problem -- there is even a draft about it : 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-terrell-math-quant-ternary-logic-of-binary-sys-01

You just use ternary logic instead of binary and all your problems are 
solved... or something...I get a little lost during the proof of Fermat's...

W


  Patrik