Re: regarding illegally formed address and commands

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On Tue, 24 Dec 1996 01:41:37 EST, "Jack De Winter" said:
> Um... actually, according to the RFC821 grammar (which we are all
> bound to until 821bis is finished), the domain part of the address
> itself is a series of parts, each separated by dots, with an
> alphabetic at the front; alphas, numerics, and a dash in the middle;
> and an alpha or numeric character at the end.
> 
> i.e. a12.com is legal, as is a1-2.com, but 1.com, a1-.com, and -1.com
> are illegal... according to 821 at least.
Jack:

RFC821 was amended by RFC1123. Section 2.1  states:

   2.1  Host Names and Numbers

      The syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952
      [DNS:4].  One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the
      restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a
      letter or a digit.  Host software MUST support this more liberal
      syntax.

So 1.com is legal (as is 3com.com), but I believe that a1-.com and -1.com
are still illegal.  You may wish to read all the *rest* of RFC1122 and 1123,
and see what *other* RFC's they modified and clarified, and look to see if
they require any code changes in SLMail...

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				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Engineer
				Virginia Tech