Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:46:49 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Marius Strom <marius@marius.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Resolver Issues (non valid hostname characters) Message-ID: <3E811499.93BC4550@mindspring.com> References: <64BD550E-5EFD-11D7-8571-0003930B3DA4@nostrum.com> <20030325204423.1EEAA5D07@ptavv.es.net> <20030325224627.GO76682@marius.org>
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Marius Strom wrote: > 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. Great. If this is committed before RFC-952 is updated, FreeBSD users can now define host names that break other machines on the net which are strictly conformant to RFC-952. What is the first maxim of protocol design? "Be generous in what you accept, strict in what you generate". It would be a mistake to commit this. Please see Mark Andrews fine postings (as well as my own postings) on this topic. -- Terry
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