Sys log question.

[Fred Viles]

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?  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