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Re: back by popular demand - a DNS calculator

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Fri, 15 February 2013 22:14 UTC

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>> - the Bert version uses DNS strings that aren't valid
>>   (*, +, ',', ++)

this is not an accident

> 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? ;-)

no need.  the spec is pretty clear.

randy

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