Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:51:44 -0600 From: David J Duchscher <daved@nostrum.com> To: Mark.Andrews@isc.org Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: Resolver Issues (non valid hostname characters) Message-ID: <A4C37B8C-5F46-11D7-9839-0003930B3DA4@nostrum.com> In-Reply-To: <200303260353.h2Q3rXpE028440@drugs.dv.isc.org>
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On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 09:53 PM, Mark.Andrews@isc.org wrote: > The current implementation fits this. It handles (accepts) > garbage in and only returns (generates) clean respones to > the application. > Which I would say it not the intention of what being 'generous on what you accept' to mean. IMHO, the maxim is to stop exactly what is happening. We are being restrictive on what we return to the application so things are breaking. I can't change the remote end so communication does not flow. From my perspective, you advocating being restrict on what you will accept and what you will send. > If the resolver died receiving underscore you would something > to complain about. Currently it just filters out ALL illegal > responses. I can't talk to some hosts on the internet because FreeBSD will not resolve the host name which over 99% of the host on the Internet will. I guess that just doesn't matter. DaveD
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