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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:11:03 -0800
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        Marius Strom <marius@marius.org>
Cc:        David J Duchscher <daved@nostrum.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Resolver Issues (non valid hostname characters) 
Message-ID:  <20030325231103.C8F325D07@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:46:27 CST." <20030325224627.GO76682@marius.org> 

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> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:46:27 -0600
> From: Marius Strom <marius@marius.org>
> 
> I've submitted a PR for this: misc/50299 documenting the RFC
> mis-following (is that a word?) as well as a patch for res_comp.c.

As Mark Andrews pointed out in a private message, this is not a BIND
issue. It's a resolver issue. The resolver does enforce the RFC limiting
the characters used for host names in accordance with the RFC. BIND will
handle anything.

A big issue is that ICANN appears to have authorized internationalized
names and those appear certain to break LOTS of things.

But this PR is probably not correct as BIND does adhere to the
RFC. RFC952 still holds sway as confirmed in RFC1123.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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