In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Louis A. Mamakos" writes:
: The DNS can store names where the values used for each octet of a
: label in a DNS name can have any value at all between 0 and 255,
: including " ", ".", and other rude things. The general purpose
: mechansim can be (ab)sed for all sorts of purposes not originally
: envisioned (like Hesiod - you want to exclude "_" from user names?)
This is true. However, for hostnames, such uses are illegal. That's
what we're talking about here.
Warner
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