On Friday, May 15, 1998 1:17 PM, Yiorgos Adamopoulos[SMTP:Y.Adamopoulos@noc.ntua.gr] wrote: @On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 05:20:12PM +0200, Peter Koch wrote: @> 2) Useless defaults @> an unfortunately increasingly popular DNS server software suggests @> "administrator" either as a single label or with the zone name or @> probably the primary's name concatenated to it. While the first is @> even syntactically incorrect, mails to one of the latter nearly always @> bounces because the addresses have never been made valid. @ @Knowledgable people, should be able to hand-edit these software's produced @files ;-) One thing I've discovered is that a SOA delegation cannot be @followed by a A RR if you use the tools provided ;-) @ @ In the IPv8 Plan, an A resource record (RR) for the Top Level Domain contains a 32 bit quantity that is similar to a Program Status Word (PSW) on a CPU. This is used to encode the addressing mode for addresses that come from that TLD authority. It is surprising how many people think that A RRs can only contain IP addresses. They are really just object containers for the class 32 bit Integer. TXT records hold Strings and AAAA records hold 128 bit Integers. The DNS could be used for much more, once people are allowed to be creative... - Jim Fleming Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.net IPv8 - Designed for the Rest of the Human Race AM Radio Stations ---> http://www.DOT.AM