>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. The 16 bit addresses for Chaosnet sound right. Details aside, I entirely agree with your point that classes are useless, and we should shut down registries, deprecate classes other than IN, and so forth. For classes to be useful, they'd have needed well defined per-class boostrap and delegation, which they've never had. Whatever classes were supposed to provide we now get with separate DNS trees with their own roots. I gather there's a very widely used one that supports GSM mobile phone roaming, with the root at Neustar. R's, John PS: We briefly had a Chaosnet at Yale around 1980, for which I have memories of one weekend when we wrestled the amusingly named semi-rigid cable (semi-rigid in the same sense that a tire iron is semi-rigid) through utility closets. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
