On Feb 15, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Patrik Fältström <paf(_at_)frobbit(_dot_)se> wrote:
On 15 feb 2013, at 18:19, Joe Touch <touch(_at_)ISI(_dot_)EDU> wrote:
- the Bert version uses DNS strings that aren't valid
(*, +, ',', ++)
Are we going to open again the question whether the DNS protocol can handle
any value in the octets, as compared to the hostname definition that says
something more limited? ;-)
Sure -- the DNS protocol *cannot* "handle any value in the octets" -- in fact,
there are an *infinite* number of values it cannot handle *in the octets*. For
example, it cannot handle 257. It also cannot handle 321, nor 19.3...
:-P
W
Patrik
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