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Subject: Re: Resolver Issues (non valid hostname characters)
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Kevin Oberman wrote:
> It should be noted that this limitation was in RFC952 which is not a DNS
> specification. See RFC2181. I think our implementation is simply
> broken.

You mean "bind's implementation, which FreeBSD has adopted, is broken,
IYO".

People keep saying this, and then not providing source code.

-- Terry