On Feb 15, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Patrik Fältström <paf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 15 feb 2013, at 18:19, Joe Touch <touch@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> - the Bert version uses DNS strings that aren't valid
>> (*, +, ',', ++)
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> 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
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> Patrik
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