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Re: [dhcwg] How to encode DNS labels in DHCP options

Josh Littlefield <joshl@cisco.com> Thu, 06 September 2001 14:01 UTC

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Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 09:56:47 -0400
From: Josh Littlefield <joshl@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] How to encode DNS labels in DHCP options
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Bud Millwood wrote:
> 
> I'll admit I don't know much about the DNS binary name format, but I'm going
> to ask: why is it better to encode DNS names in binary than ASCII?

There are no special characters (such as ".", or a null terminator) in DNS
native format, so it requires no quoting characters (which would themselves
require quoting).  It is not intended to be directly printable, so character
set issues are transparent, or will be when IDN resolves questions about
localized, non-7-bit ASCII names.  The form is simply a series of counted
label strings, so no real parsing is involved in handling the names.

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