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[dnsext] historical question re WKS

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Wed, 07 March 2012 14:39 UTC

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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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RFC 2136 specifies some odd special case handling of WKS records, to
prevent a name from having more than one WKS record for a given IP address
and protocol pair. Where did this requirement come from? I can't find
anything along those lines in RFC 1035.

Tony.
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