Reverse for a /23

[Cricket Liu]

> >> 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?
> >
> >Hypothetically, yes.
> 
> Excuse me, but why is this even hypothetically yes?  It would
> still be 127 zones, wouldn't it?

Sorry, that's absolutely right.  It could be as many as 128 zones,
and as Mark points out, you'd normally only delegate those
that are populated.

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