RFC 2317:Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation
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... prefix (what was traditionally referred to as a "class C network number") often leads to inefficient address space utilization. ...


... address or the first address and the network mask length (as shown below) in the corresponding address space to form the the first component in the name for the zones. The following four zone files show how the problem in the motivation ...


... address, or the first address and the network mask length in the corresponding address space, to name the new zones is to use some other (non-numeric) name. Thus it is ...



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