[26635] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Cappuccio)
Mon Jan 10 22:15:22 2000
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:43:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris Cappuccio <chris@dqc.org>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz>
Cc: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20000111135321.C17225@patho.gen.nz>
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Joe Abley wrote:
| > Ny using octet boundaries, you're making an inference that the IP
| > addresses are being used in a classful fashion. It's doubtful this will
| > be the case in today's network.
|
| I don't buy your logic. By that reasoning, PTR records are not supported
| on today's network either, since they also work on octet boundaries.
|
Yes but the methods for delegating PTR records that are smaller then a /24
are ugly hacks. See RFC 2317 if you don't already know why.
Sorry, off topic, just had to get my gripe in there.
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