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mcast.net

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mcast.net is a second level domain reserved by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and maintained by Verisign used to bind DNS records unique to multicast addressing.[1] The domain and its subdomains are not associated with any web site.

In 2011 it was proposed to make it flow into the domain .arpa without having found success.[2]

Examples

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Examples of multicast address definitions in the domain mcast.net are:

Domain name Address Description
base-address.mcast.net 224.0.0.0 base address
all-systems.mcast.net 224.0.0.1 all systems on the local networks
all-routers.mcast.net 224.0.0.2 all routers in the local networks
dvmrp.mcast.net 224.0.0.4 all routers for the Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP)
igmp.mcast.net 224.0.0.22 IGMP protocol
mdns.mcast.net 224.0.0.251 Multicast DNS protocol
ntp.mcast.net 224.0.1.1 Network Time Protocol (NTP)
sip.mcast.net 224.0.1.75 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) servers

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Multicast IPv4 Address Space Registry". IANA.
  2. ^ P. Koch (5 July 2011). Moving MCAST.NET into the ARPA top level domain infrastructure draft-ietf-mboned-mcast-harp-03. {{cite book}}: |newspaper= ignored (help)