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DNS NSAP Resource Records
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Network Working Group B. Manning
Request for Comments: 1637 Rice University
Obsoletes: 1348 R. Colella
Category: Experimental NIST
June 1994
DNS NSAP Resource Records
Status of this Memo
This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any
kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
The Internet is moving towards the deployment of an OSI lower layers
infrastructure. This infrastructure comprises the connectionless
network protocol (CLNP) and supporting routing protocols. Also
required as part of this infrastructure is support in the Domain Name
System (DNS) for mapping between names and NSAP addresses.
This document defines the format of one new Resource Record (RR) for
the DNS for domain name-to-NSAP mapping. The RR may be used with any
NSAP address format. This document supercedes RFC 1348.
NSAP-to-name translation is accomplished through use of the PTR RR
(see STD 13, RFC 1035 for a description of the PTR RR). This paper
describes how PTR RRs are used to support this translation.
Manning & Colella
