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[dnsext] Question on characters in DNS lookups?

Nicholas Weaver <nweaver@icsi.berkeley.edu> Fri, 04 March 2011 15:36 UTC

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	Just to confirm, although hostnames are restricted, any octet may be used in a label for lookups of non-hostname records (eg, TXT records).

	Correct?

	If so, which RFC includes this?

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