Draft internic ip allocation doc

bmanning at ISI.EDU bmanning at ISI.EDU
Wed May 17 15:41:06 UTC 1995


> 
> >...
> >
> >Well, you can delegate these as 128 individual zones.  With a little
> >bit of automation to help, it may approach practical.  You can
> >delegate a single domain name in the limiting case.
> 
> But this doesn't really save anything in terms of the amount of work that
> has to be done by the NICs and probably increases it, as when the ISP's
> clients want to be primary for their IN-ADDR.ARPA domains, the delegation
> records will have to be updated to list extra servers.
> 

Actually, it does save.  The NICs (and down stream providers) get extra
levels of heirarchy that get delegated.  Once delegated, the load is
considerably less.

-- 
--bill



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