Re: [DNSOP] [[e-mail]: New Version Notification for draft-sullivan-dns-class-useless-01.txt]

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

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

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