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Class A Subnet Experiment Results and Recommendations
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Network Working Group B. Manning, Editor
Request for Comments: 1879 ISI
Category: Informational January 1996
Class A Subnet Experiment
Results and Recommendations
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Discussion/Purpose
This memo documents some experiences with the RFC 1797 [1] subnet A
experiment (performed by the Net39 Test Group (see credits)) and
provides a number of recommendations on future direction for both the
Internet Registries and the Operations community.
Not all proposed experiments in RFC 1797 were done. Only the "case
one" type delegations were made. Additional experimentation was done
within the DNS service, by supporting a root nameserver and the
primary for the domain from within the subnetted address space. In
addition, testing was done on classless delegation [2].
Internet Services offered over the RFC 1797 experiment were:
Finger
HTTP
Telnet
FTP server/client
Gopher
kerberos
lpr (and its ilk)
X
DNS
F.Root-Servers.Net, a root name server had an interface defined as
part of the RFC 1797 experiment. Attached is a report fragment on
it's performance: "My root server has processed 400,000,000 queries
in the last 38 days, and well over half of them were to the temporary
39.13.229.241 address (note that I retained the old 192.5.5.241
address since I knew a lot of folks would not update their root.cache
files and I didn't want to create a black hole.)" - Paul Vixie
Manning Informational