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Re: macomnet weird dns record

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Apr 14 11:57:23 2015

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Colin Johnston <colinj@gt86car.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:26:48 +0100."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:57:12 -0400
Cc: "<nanog@nanog.org>" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:26:48 +0100, Colin Johnston said:
> Best practice says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug since mix
> of dec and hex

Odd.  All the hex and decimal have proper indicators (initial 1-9 or 0x), and
should be easily understood by anybody who actually knows their number systems.
Be glad they didn't throw in octal without a leading 0. :)

Would host-242.strgz.87.118.199.240.slash28.macomnet.net have confused you less?

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