Extract from : RFC 1035 - Domain names - implementation and specification The following syntax will result in fewer problems with many applications that use domain names (e.g., mail, TELNET).
Note that while upper and lower case letters are allowed in domain names, no significance is attached to the case. That is, two names with the same spelling but different case are to be treated as if identical. The labels must follow the rules for ARPANET host names. They must start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior characters only letters, digits, and hyphen. There are also some restrictions on the length. Labels must be 63 characters or less. For example, the following strings identify hosts in the Internet: A.ISI.EDU XX.LCS.MIT.EDU SRI-NIC.ARPA |
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Extract from : RFC 1918 Address Allocation for Private Internets February 1996 The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:
We will refer to the first block as "24-bit block", the second as "20-bit block", and to the third as "16-bit" block. Note that (in pre-CIDR notation) the first block is nothing but a single class A network number, while the second block is a set of 16 contiguous class B network numbers, and third block is a set of 256 contiguous class C network numbers. |
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