Internet2 Network Security SIG

[Matthew J Zekauskas <>]

FWIW, I think the accuracy/precision values in the records are all 
defaults (which would lead me to believe they were not explicitly 
set).    I could be wrong; I just glanced at the RFC 
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1876>.

--Matt

On 9/5/17 10:12 AM, Steven Wallace wrote:
> Thanks for the catch Michael. I assumed modern times where we use decimal 
> degrees notation.
>
> So
>
> rtsw.newy32aoa.net.internet2.edu. 3600 IN LOC   40 43 12.248 N 74 0 18.716 W 
> 0.00m 1m 10000m 10m
>
> would be?
>
> rtsw.newy32aoa.net.internet2.edu. 3600 IN LOC   40 43 12 N 74 0 18 W 0.00m 1m 
> 10000m 10m
>
>
> > On Sep 5, 2017, at 9:59 AM, Michael H Lambert 
> > <>
> >  wrote:
> >
> > > On 5 Sep 2017, at 09:53, Chris Wilkinson 
> > > <>
> > >  wrote:
> > >
> > > As Steve notes, knocking down the precision may be the better approach here.
> > One second of arc is ~30m (at least for longitude at the equator and 
> > latitude).  Three decimal places of seconds are thus 3cm. The measurements 
> > probably aren't that precise (LOC records for every port in the router?); it 
> > probably isn't worth the effort to change them at all.
> >
> > Michael