From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 12 15:53:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F4D14EAA for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:53:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA83581; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:52:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:52:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt011n65.san.rr.com To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: Glenn Chisholm , Evren Yurtesen , Bill Fumerola , Michael Mannsberger , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (2) hey In-Reply-To: <199908122227.SAA87677@whizzo.transsys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > But the DNS is used to hold all sorts of information. For example, how do > you reconcile domain names like: > > 42.10.202.144.IN-ADDR.ARPA > > in the DNS? It violates the "starts with alpha" "requirement" in 952 and 1101 Errrr.. even if that argument weren't silly on its face, the 'starts/ends with alpha' requirement has been relaxed for some time now. First for legacy domains like 3com.com, and next for newer ones like 411.com. The only rule that is currently being enforced is that no label can begin or end with a dash. > that you quotes, yet we use these things all the time. In fact, you can > send email to that domain name because it has an A record associated with > it, as well as a PTR record. That IS a violation of the standard, since A records are not valid for hosts in in-addr.arpa. > What do I know; I was just the first chair of the domain name working group > in the IETF so many years ago before it got fashionable. Well, things change. :) Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message