[23920] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wasted space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri Apr 30 09:50:15 1999
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 09:46:55 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m10d0JZ-0008G4C@rip.psg.com>; from Randy Bush <rbush@bainbridge.verio.net> on Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 04:33:57PM -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 04:33:57PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> >> domain names are finite. 254 char limit drawn from an 8-bit char set.
> > $ bc
> > 256^254
> > 49311837877366649323600580884811328064642490645928167773636391338386\
> > 00942820417921935608125537553934278674005267623599165972833122328326\
> > 58311281622107670335702985799671951234310153163915857728680359766210\
> > 69439038508288907840911493166867209378778336289339669574030006474132\
> > 65364309855012299736389026478635486131947843882498538312526670313197\
> > 24958132568898411896638150110768600863536200871492771279798342546336\
> > 76061407041110011837155687183077462622686306172536143846476937385117\
> > 82868915581833149250995402477804959206649465186461985527496130098804\
> > 49926596639031121858756000207590413184793166384097191709192063287296
> >
> > 256^4
> > 4294967296
>
> your point?
His point was fairly obvious to _me_, Randy: Yes, domain names are not
truly "infinite", but they're much _less_ non-infinite than IP
addresses.
Cheers,
-- jra
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