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Re: [IETF] Re: back by popular demand - a DNS calculator

Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> Fri, 15 February 2013 22:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [IETF] Re: back by popular demand - a DNS calculator
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On Feb 15, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Patrik Fältström <paf@frobbit.se> wrote:

> On 15 feb 2013, at 18:19, Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> wrote:
> 
>> 	- the Bert version uses DNS strings that aren't valid
>> 	(*, +, ',', ++)
> 
> 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
W

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>   Patrik
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