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

2013-02-20 20:46:52
Wasn't the 'evil bit' able to hold the value 2 ?

Use all evil bits for IP addresses and we'll soon have no need for IPv6.

:D

~C.

On 2/15/13 6:45 PM, Warren Kumari wrote:

On Feb 15, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Patrik Fältström <paf(_at_)frobbit(_dot_)se> 
wrote:

On 15 feb 2013, at 18:19, Joe Touch <touch(_at_)ISI(_dot_)EDU> wrote:

    - the Bert version uses DNS strings that aren't valid
    (*, +, ',', ++)

Are we going to open again the question whether the DNS protocol can handle 
any value in the octets, as compared to the hostname definition that says 
something more limited? ;-)

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...

:-P
W


  Patrik


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