On 16 Feb 2013 07:03, "Patrik Fältström" <paf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 15 feb 2013, at 23:45, Warren Kumari <warren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Sure -- the DNS protocol *cannot* "handle any value in the octets" -- in fact, there are an *infinite* number of values it cannot handle *in the octets*. For example, it cannot handle 257. It also cannot handle 321, nor 19.3...
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> Ok, it is obvious Friday...somewhere...
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> Once when being on IESG way back when I was tasked to write the response to the letter we got with a suggestion on an alternative solution for the "running out of IPv4 addresses" problem.
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> The proposal was to not stop counting at 255 in each of the four numbers separated by periods, but continue to (at least) 999.
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Seems quite sensible to me. After all, we do this in TELNET option negotiation.