Nslookup and fully qualified name
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Sat Jan 24 10:58:42 UTC 2004
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 06:34:15PM +0000,
> phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu <phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu> wrote
> a message of 31 lines which said:
>> The format of the domain name, it's illegal
> As a domain name, it is certainly LEGAL. As an host name, it WAS
> illegal but it is no longer.
>> See rfc1123 for details
> On the contrary, RFC 1123 was the one which authorized all-digits
> names (before RFC 1123, you needed an initial letter).
> Read it: 2.1 "Host Names and Numbers", p.13
OK, i'll quote :
"One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the
restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a
letter or a digit. Host software MUST support this more liberal
syntax."
And a littee later :
"If a dotted-decimal number can be entered without such
identifying delimiters, then a full syntactic check must be
made, because a segment of a host domain name is now allowed
to begin with a digit and could legally be entirely numeric
(see Section 6.1.2.4). However, a valid host name can never
have the dotted-decimal form #.#.#.#, since at least the
highest-level component label will be alphabetic."
I stand corrected.
I do however insist on the hazards involved with using all-numeric
host-names, they will trigger software anomalies everywhere.
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Peter Håkanson
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