Internet DNS to distribute RFC1327 Address Mapping Tables - 2 fields

Claudio Allocchio - +39 40 3758523 <ALLOCCHIO@elettra.trieste.it> Thu, 24 March 1994 10:25 UTC

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From: Claudio Allocchio - +39 40 3758523 <ALLOCCHIO@elettra.trieste.it>
To: Christian.Huitema@sophia.inria.fr
Cc: pvm@isi.edu, ietf-osi-x400ops@cs.wisc.edu, ALLOCCHIO@elettra.trieste.it
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Subject: Internet DNS to distribute RFC1327 Address Mapping Tables - 2 fields

>
>There is another advantage to using 2 separate fields, i.e. using the data
>compression algorithm embedded in the DNS protocol. It is very probably the 
>case that the mapping data will be correlated with the domain name. In that
>case, the servers and client can use the algorithm specified in RFC 1035
>(4.1.4. Message compression, page 30).
>
>Christian Huitema

 yes, in fact we are already rewriting the PX definition to use 2 value
fields instead of one plus the separator.

Claudio