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RE: IP Allocation
From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming () unety net>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 11:29:22 -0600
On Wednesday, November 20, 1996 6:19 AM, Dima Volodin[SMTP:dvv () sprint net] wrote: @ <<File: ATT00168.txt>> You can use MX records with a port number in the PREFERENCE field and a single 4-byte label in the EXCHANGE field. Or use TXT RRs of whatever format you bloody will. Dima @@@@@@@ Yes, good points... In general I do not think that people have looked closely at the "hidden" features that can be mined from the cryptic DNS system. In my opinion a boundary needs to be placed around the IPv4 "Core" transport network. We can rely on that network for two things: 1. Low-cost international bit transport, using 32 bit addressed encapsulation headers. 2. A working DNS system for use in mapping symbolic names to binary values. A new Internet can be build around the edges of that core network. How the above capabilities are exploited are up to conventions and agreements made outside of that core transport facility. As an example, we are using TXT records to update the name server information in true root name servers. That information is provided by Top Level Domain name servers which provide it via, what looks like, a standard DNS zone file. The root name server uses the DNS zone transfer capabilities to automatically update its records based on the infromation "pulled" from the TLD name server. There are many other applications for the DNS system. I am sure that more and more people will start to invent new uses, now that the "core" transport network is stable and not evolving from a technical point of view as fast as the technology around the edges. -- Jim Fleming UNETY Systems, Inc. Naperville, IL e-mail: JimFleming () unety net JimFleming () unety net.s0.g0 (EDNS/IPv8) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: IP Allocation, (continued)
- Re: IP Allocation Peter Galbavy (Nov 20)
- Re: IP Allocation Lyndon.Levesley (Nov 20)
- Re: IP Allocation Randy Bush (Nov 20)
- Re: IP Allocation Michael Handler (Nov 20)
- "Virtual" web servers (was Re: IP Allocation) Martin Cooper (Nov 20)
- Re: "Virtual" web servers (was Re: IP Allocation) Pete Davis (Nov 20)
- Re: "Virtual" web servers (was Re: IP Allocation) Jared Mauch (Nov 20)
- Re: IP Allocation Dima Volodin (Nov 20)
- Re: IP Allocation Paul A Vixie (Nov 20)