Reverse for a /23

Stephen Amadei amadei at dandy.net
Wed Dec 22 18:01:33 UTC 1999


On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Cricket Liu wrote:

> If you want to "learn the lessons of RFC 2317," you might be
> interested in the first sentence of its Introduction:
> 
> "This document describes a way to do IN-ADDR.ARPA
>  delegation on non-octet boundaries *for address spaces
>  covering fewer than 256 addresses.*" [My emphasis.]

O.K... I had heard RFC2317 was for doing reverse breaking _any_ of the
octets... not just the last one.

Then what would be done, for say a /17 reverse?  Create 32768 reverse
files?

					----Steve
Stephen Amadei
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