[CrackMonkey] Instruments of inquisition, or... !Help, I'm being tried in ignorance (again)

Paul J Collins sneakums at eircom.net
Sat Sep 16 17:13:51 PDT 2000


>>>>> "Monkey" == Monkey Master <monkeymaster at crackmonkey.org> writes:

    Monkey> begin  Paul J Collins quotation:
    >> Doesn't A stand for address, versus CNAME for canonical name
    >> and PTR for pointer?
    Monkey> 	Then why are IPv6 records "AAAA"?

That's like saying, ``why does IPv6 require struct in6_addr?''.  A is
a 32-bit address, AAAA is a (32 * 4) 128-bit address.

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