Sys log question.
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Tue May 16 08:27:04 UTC 2000
> Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote in
> <200005160113.LAA08045 at bsdi.dv.isc.org>:
>
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Could I get some help with this?
> >>
> >> 14-May-2000 23:54:50.000 XX+/209.147.72.35/egroups.com\032/MX/IN
> >>
> >> I think I know most of what this line is telling me but what
> >> does the part "\032" mean?
> >
> > It means that the last label was "com ". 032 is the decimal
> > value of space, the backslash indictes that the next
> > character(s) is to be specially processed. This is standard
> > presentation format for a domain name.
>
> Isn't that a normal C-style escape?
No. It is a RFC1035 style escape.
Mark
> In which case \032 would be
> octal, and mean that the character is actually ctrl-Z? That seems
> like it would explain why the lookup fails...
>
> - Fred
>
>
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