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[dns-wg] Re: [db-wg] Proposal to Change the Dash ('-') Notation in Reverse DOMAIN Objects

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Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Mon Apr 18 15:15:27 CEST 2011

> I'm not exactly sure why we want to support 
> 
>   mycroft-jones.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa
> 
> in the RIPE DNS tools... or maybe I am misunderstanding something now,
> but this whole apparatus is to automate delegation of *reverse* zones,
> and those usually don't consist of people's surnames.

and the zones do not consist of 120-127.42.66.in-addr.arpa either.

the hyphen syntax is a macro in a language that is not in the dns.  therefor
that it is not acceptable dns syntax is not relevant.

randy

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