On 7/15/2014 20:36, G. Matthew Rice wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Bryan J Smith <b.j.sm...@ieee.org> wrote: >> So _everyone_ needs to know Class A, B and C if they are going to remotely >> do any DNS administration. So it's best to introduce them with their CIDR >> for IPv4. > DNS servers/reverse records are part of LPIC-2, though. > > LPIC-1 is about being a consumer of DNS services. > > So, final vote guys: > > - explicitly mention CIDR notation? (I've always considered it a given) > - explicitly mention VLSM? (also always considered it a given) > - include Class A, B, C networks? (we used to have it but dropped it; > I always considered it a little bit of an archaic way of referring to > subnets; plus internal networks don't care and most people have their > public IPs assigned/subnetted for them) I vote to explicitly mention Class A, B and C. After all, CIDR is Classless Inter-Domain Routing which makes little sense as an acronym unless you understand what the classes are that are no longer required. Sort of like walking into a room and the light goes on by some motion activated switch. How did that happen before? What IS a light switch?
Agree on mentioning both CIDR and VLSM. > TTYL, > --matt > Ian Shields (Retired from IBM) _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
