[dns-operations] /24 Reverse DNS delegation using the IP Address 4th octet?

[Paul Vixie]

> From: David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org>
> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:20:05 -0700
> 
> My guess (based on zero knowledge) is this is an artifact of their
> provisioning system, so it would probably be more work for them if they
> did it the smart way.

my guess is the same.  still, and for the record, rfc 2317 speaks thusly:

+---
| 5. Operational considerations
| 
|    This technique is intended to be used for delegating address spaces
|    covering fewer than 256 addresses.  For delegations covering larger
|    blocks of addresses the traditional methods (multiple delegations)
|    can be used instead.
+---

hopefully the implementors of such provisioning systems will read this.