8.146 PGW FQDN

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The PGW FQDN IE shall contain an FQDN representing the PGW Set or PGW. It shall be encoded as shown in Figure 8.146-1.

Bits

Octets

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

1 to 2

Type = 215 (decimal)

3 to 4

Length = n

5

Spare

6 to m

FQDN

(m+1) to (n+4)

These octet(s) is/are present only if explicitly specified

Figure 8.146-1: PGW FQDN

FQDN encoding shall be identical to the encoding of a FQDN within a DNS message of clause 3.1 of IETF RFC 1035 [27] but excluding the trailing zero byte.

NOTE: The FQDN field in the IE is not encoded as a dotted string as commonly used in DNS master zone files.