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Re: [IETF] back by popular demand - a DNS calculator

Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> Sat, 16 February 2013 13:43 UTC

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From: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>
Subject: Re: [IETF] back by popular demand - a DNS calculator
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:46:27 -0500
To: Patrik Fältström <paf@frobbit.se>
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On Feb 16, 2013, at 2:02 AM, Patrik Fältström <paf@frobbit.se> wrote:

> 
> On 15 feb 2013, at 23:45, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:
> 
>> Sure -- the DNS protocol *cannot* "handle any value in the octets" -- in fact, there are an *infinite* number of values it cannot handle *in the octets*. For example, it cannot handle 257. It also cannot handle 321, nor 19.3...
> 
> Ok, it is obvious Friday...somewhere...
> 
> Once when being on IESG way back when I was tasked to write the response to the letter we got with a suggestion on an alternative solution for the "running out of IPv4 addresses" problem.
> 
> The proposal was to not stop counting at 255 in each of the four numbers separated by periods, but continue to (at least) 999.
> 

That's also a solved problem -- there is even a draft about it : http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-terrell-math-quant-ternary-logic-of-binary-sys-01

You just use ternary logic instead of binary and all your problems are solved... or something...I get a little lost during the proof of Fermat's...

W


>   Patrik
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