cTLD and DNS upgrade

[Brad Knowles]

At 2:34 AM +0200 2005-07-06, Brad Knowles wrote:

>                                                     Heck, this isn't a
>  description of any sort of test to prove that you found a solution
>  that works on anything more than the accidental types of cache
>  pollution that you encountered.

	Actually, all that Peter can really say is that he thinks he 
found a solution that usually works against the specific example of 
cache pollution/incorrect delegation data that he encountered at that 
time.

>  	It's a perfectly valid character as part of a domain name.  Try
>  reading the RFCs.  Labels in domain names are explicitly allowed to
>  be 8-bit binary data, although there are strong recommendations to
>  limit them to the standard syntax for host naming conventions (e.g.,
>  RFC 1025 section 2.3.1, although I'm sure that this has been updated
>  or perhaps even obsoleted by later RFCs).

	Sorry, make that RFC 1035, not 1025.  My bad.

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