[6224] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP Allocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dima Volodin)
Wed Nov 20 12:38:29 1996
To: JimFleming@unety.net (Jim Fleming)
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 12:19:23 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, randy@psg.com
In-Reply-To: <01BBD6CD.B3ACB2E0@webster.unety.net> from "Jim Fleming" at Nov 20, 96 10:29:23 am
From: dvv@sprint.net (Dima Volodin)
You can use MX records with a port number in the PREFERENCE field and a
single 4-byte label in the EXCHANGE field. Or use TXT RRs of whatever
format you bloody will.
Dima
Jim Fleming writes:
> Some might also claim that there is a limitation in DNS
> system because "port" numbers can not easily be returned
> with an IP address. If that had been possible, then one IP
> address could have been used and different TCP port numbers.
>
> With the introduction of AAAA records into the DNS system,
> there is now an opportunity to send 128 bit binary quantities.
> Part of that quantity can be interpreted as a 32 bit IP address
> and part can be interpreted as a port number.
>
> --
> Jim Fleming
> UNETY Systems, Inc.
> Naperville, IL
>
> e-mail:
> JimFleming@unety.net
> JimFleming@unety.net.s0.g0 (EDNS/IPv8)
>
>
