On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:53:57PM -0000, John Levine wrote: > >Since 1034 says that A in CH is "a domain name followed by a 16 bit > >octal Chaos address," but 882 sais "it might have the phone number of > >the host" (and gives the example > > > > +----------+--------+--------+----------------------------+ > > |F.ISI.ARPA| A | CS | 213-822-2112 | > > +----------+--------+--------+----------------------------+ > > Not to niggle on details, but that's CS as in CSNET, not CH as in > Chaos, and the phone number was the number of the host's dialup modem.
I'm apparently having a hard time reading this month :-/ But your point makes the problem yet worse, since there's no sense that in the CS net class here the RDATA of an A record is a host address. I suppose that, since it's in 882 (which is obsoleted) that doesn't matter. But in CH according to the definition it's not just a host addressm but "a domain name followed by a 16 bit" address. (Maybe that actually means that the domain name is not in the RDATA. Since I'm having so much trouble reading this month, it's probably better that I not form an opinion.) Thanks for the correction. A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
