Eric Brunner-Williams <e...@abenaki.wabanaki.net> wrote: > i'd like to think of it as a sequence of bits having having no infix dots and > having no semantics, e.g., directionality, arising externally to itself.
Dots are allowed in labels but have to be escaped in the presentation format. RFC 1035 section 5.1: \X where X is any character other than a digit (0-9), is used to quote that character so that its special meaning does not apply. For example, "\." can be used to place a dot character in a label. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ East Sole, Lundy, Fastnet: Cyclonic at times in east Sole, otherwise southeasterly 5 to 7. Moderate or rough. Occasional rain, fog patches. Moderate, occasionally very poor, becoming good at times. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop