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> The number should preferably be in the range 1-255 so that it can be used in the WKS field in name servers.

Can't find any reference to WKS as a 'field' or record type. Any greybeards want to elaborate?



Good old RFC 1035 is your friend

Section 3.4.2



By name servers they mean DNS. I don't believe it is used and I hadn't heard of it, more info here if you search WKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DNS_record_types


> By name servers they mean DNS.

Yeah I know. Hence mentioning record types in the question you're reponding to. But yes, that wikipedia page has some info:

> WKS: Record to describe well-known services supported by a host. Not used in practice. The current recommendation and practice is to determine whether a service is supported on an IP address by trying to connect to it. SMTP is even prohibited from using WKS records in MX processing.[12]




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