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

Thomas Narten <narten@raleigh.ibm.com> Wed, 05 September 2001 15:22 UTC

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To: "Bernie Volz (EUD)" <Bernie.Volz@am1.ericsson.se>
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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] How to encode DNS labels in DHCP options
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From: Thomas Narten <narten@raleigh.ibm.com>
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Bernie,

> The problem is that the FQDN option is already in such wide
> deployment with the ASCII encoding that it would be impossible to
> ask that everyone change to using the new.

Which clients implement this? I.e, if there are lots of clients
sending this out to servers today, than the spec should document this
so servers can respond appropriately (or at the very least, not
choke). But it would be good to know the number of clients we are
talking about.

Thomas

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