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Re: [dnsext] was Re: historical question re WKS

bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com Thu, 08 March 2012 10:17 UTC

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To: Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>
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On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 01:03:59PM -0500, Edward Lewis wrote:
> Oops on-list...still all not that useful. ;)
> 
> >"The WKS record is used to describe the well known services supported by
> >a particular protocol on a particular internet address."
> >
> >I'd bug Vixie directly if you want to know.
> >

	actually, the person to bug would be Mocapetris.
	WKS predates vixie by several years.

	this was back when hosts had mutliple NICs and multiple
	internet addresses.


/bill
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