Re: [DNSOP] New Version Notification for draft-gersch-dnsop-revdns-cidr-02.txt

Ray Bellis <Ray.Bellis@nominet.org.uk> Wed, 09 May 2012 15:31 UTC

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Joe,

The draft says:

"The challenge is to preserve this alignment even when even when CIDR

 prefixes do not fall on octet boundaries.  For example,
 129.82.128.0/19 is a subprefix of 129.82.128.0/18.  The DNS name for
 129.82.128.0/19 should be logically below the DNS name for
 129.82.128.0/18.  This document introduces a naming convention for
 CIDR prefixes that preserves this alignment"


Whilst you've made some changes in -02 relating to the octet boundaries, as far as I can see this assertion is still not true.


The draft shows 129.82/16 mapping to m.82.129.in-addr.arpa, and 129.82.64/18 mapping to 1.0.m.82.129.in-addr.arpa, so that's OK.


However 129/8 would map to m.129.in-addr.arpa, but m.82.129.in-addr.arpa (129.82/16) is _not_ a subdomain of that, even though it is a sub-prefix of the /8.

It seems to be that your scheme works when considering prefixes which are split _within_ an octet, but does not work when considering splits _across_ an octet boundary.

Or have I misunderstood?

kind regards,

Ray