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

Bud Millwood <budm@weird-solutions.com> Thu, 06 September 2001 09:22 UTC

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From: Bud Millwood <budm@weird-solutions.com>
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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] How to encode DNS labels in DHCP options
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:23:46 +0200
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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?

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Bud Millwood
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