>> *ON THE WIRE*, all 256 byte codes are legal, since [...] > Yes noone said it is not, but fact is, the libc resolvers simply do > not allow them, so you can send through the wire whatever you want it > will not find its way to the fingerd. This does not match my experience. I control rDNS for my house network (my provider has installed CNAMEs pointing into my domain for my address space); I tried picking a currently-unused address and giving it a PTR record pointing to "Host-%-sign.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA". I then told my nameserver to reload the zone. Using "host" on the address then printed the name I'd given, Host-%-sign.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA. The resolver never even blinked. (If you want to try your own resolver on it, I've left it up; the address is 216.46.5.13. I expect I'll be able to leave it up for at least a month or so, but of course can't actually commit to that.) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
