Sys log question.

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 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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