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# the library of congress website.
Generally 1 or 3 is used by vendors and reporters, since it results in bigger throughput.
__Loc__ation:
- A field in a
[DNS] record.
-
- <verbatim>
- $ host -t LOC waikato.ac.nz
- waikato.ac.nz. LOC 37 48 30.000 S 175 17 36.000 E 66.00m 3000m 30m 10m
- </verbatim>
-
- This gives a [GPS] location: 37 deg 48' 30" South (latitude), 175 deg 17' 36" East (longitude), and 66 metres about sea level.
- The last two numbers appear to mean that the whole site is within 3000 metres of the given point.
- The point is accurate to about 30 metres, although this interpretation may be wrong.
- (It will be in the appropriate [RFC] if anyone can be bothered looking it up.)
-
- xtraceroute(1) will use these records if it can find them. Unfortunately not many sites use them
.
+ A type of
[DNS] ResourceRecord
.
