RFC 1101:DNS Encoding of Network Names and Other T...
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... was organized into two levels of subnet, with the first level using an additional 8 bits of address, and the second level using 4 bits, ...
... an additional 8 bits of address, and the second level using 4 bits, for address masks of x'FFFFFF00' and X'FFFFFFF0'. ...



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