Re: [IETF] back by popular demand - a DNS calculator

2013-03-20 Thread Ray Bellis
On 21 Feb 2013, at 02:46, Carlos M. martinez carlosm3...@gmail.commailto:carlosm3...@gmail.com wrote: Wasn't the 'evil bit' able to hold the value 2 ? Use all evil bits for IP addresses and we'll soon have no need for IPv6. Geoff Huston and I wrote a draft to use the evil bit to indicate the

Re: [IETF] back by popular demand - a DNS calculator

2013-02-20 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Feb 20, 2013, at 9:46 PM, Carlos M. martinez carlosm3...@gmail.com wrote: Wasn't the 'evil bit' able to hold the value 2 ? Yes, but we need an RFC for that. From RFC 3514: 6. IANA Considerations This document defines the behavior of security elements for the 0x0 and 0x1 values of

Re: [IETF] back by popular demand - a DNS calculator

2013-02-16 Thread Warren Kumari
Sent from my iPad On Feb 16, 2013, at 2:02 AM, Patrik Fältström p...@frobbit.se wrote: On 15 feb 2013, at 23:45, Warren Kumari war...@kumari.net wrote: Sure -- the DNS protocol *cannot* handle any value in the octets -- in fact, there are an *infinite* number of values it cannot handle

Re: [IETF] back by popular demand - a DNS calculator

2013-02-15 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 15 feb 2013, at 23:45, Warren Kumari war...@kumari.net 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

Re: [IETF] back by popular demand - a DNS calculator

2013-02-15 Thread Dave Cridland
On 16 Feb 2013 07:03, Patrik Fältström p...@frobbit.se wrote: On 15 feb 2013, at 23:45, Warren Kumari war...@kumari.net 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,