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On Feb 16, 2013, at 2:02 AM, Patrik Fältström <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 15 feb 2013, at 23:45, Warren Kumari <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sure -- the DNS protocol *cannot* "handle any value in the octets" -- in >> fact, there are an *infinite* number of values it cannot handle *in the >> octets*. For example, it cannot handle 257. It also cannot handle 321, nor >> 19.3... > > Ok, it is obvious Friday...somewhere... > > Once when being on IESG way back when I was tasked to write the response to > the letter we got with a suggestion on an alternative solution for the > "running out of IPv4 addresses" problem. > > The proposal was to not stop counting at 255 in each of the four numbers > separated by periods, but continue to (at least) 999. > That's also a solved problem -- there is even a draft about it : http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-terrell-math-quant-ternary-logic-of-binary-sys-01 You just use ternary logic instead of binary and all your problems are solved... or something...I get a little lost during the proof of Fermat's... W > Patrik >
