CNAME and OTHER data error

[Sam Wilson]

In article <8h11c3$la2$1 at nyheter.crt.se>, peter at icke-reklam.ipsec.dot..nu wrote:

>jasondinsdale at my-deja.com wrote:
>> People,
>
>> Can you please confirm something for me?   I have the following records
>> in a zone file (which I inherited), which our new 8.2.2 (P5) name
>> server is complaining about.
>
>looks to me as a description of netbui names. We did this 
>at volvo during the time we used LanServer(OS/2) as pc-servers. They
>needed simular long "hexcode" names in order to find each other.
>(i really forgot what is really wasm but i remember it was
>described in some rfc (1101 ?)

Yep, RFC 1001 p25 or thereabouts.  These are the NETBIOS over TCP
encodings for "SLDAKZ03" where the different values of the (encoded)
trailing byte specify the type of node it is.  

>> sldakz03                         IN A 9.184.224.241
>> FDEMEEEBELFKDADDCACACACACACACACA   IN CNAME sldakz03
>>                                  IN HINFO sldakz03 (0x20 in byte 16)
>> FDEMEEEBELFKDADDCACACACACACACAAA   IN CNAME sldakz03
>>                                  IN HINFO sldakz03 (0x00 in byte 16)
>> FDEMEEEBELFKDADDCACACACACACACAAD   IN CNAME sldakz03
>>                                  IN HINFO sldakz03 (0x03 in byte 16)

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Sam Wilson
Network Services Division, Computing Services
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK