<p dir="ltr">I think RFC 1035 states that you can pretty much include any character as long as it is escaped with a backslash. To me this looks like a bug in Net::DNS</p>
<p dir="ltr">Grtz Miek</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 18 Jun 2013 13:44, "Bob Harold" <<a href="mailto:rharolde@umich.edu">rharolde@umich.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>"\" and "(" are invalid characters in DNS names.</div>See RFC 952 and 1123.<div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div><div>While it might be nice for Net::DNS::Zonefile to handle them, it is really not necessary.</div>
<div>So I would consider this an odd feature request, not a bug.</div><div><br>-- <br>Bob </div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 6:00 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:net-dns-users-request@nlnetlabs.nl" target="_blank">net-dns-users-request@nlnetlabs.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:08:56 -0700<br>
From: Chris Buxton <<a href="mailto:clists@buxtonfamily.us" target="_blank">clists@buxtonfamily.us</a>><br>
To: "<a href="mailto:net-dns-users@nlnetlabs.nl" target="_blank">net-dns-users@nlnetlabs.nl</a>" <<a href="mailto:net-dns-users@nlnetlabs.nl" target="_blank">net-dns-users@nlnetlabs.nl</a>><br>
Subject: [net-dns-users] Bug report: Net::DNS::Zonefile fails to read<br>
escaped parenthesis<br>
Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:3C89B9F1-711B-4F48-9435-681EF376619F@buxtonfamily.us" target="_blank">3C89B9F1-711B-4F48-9435-681EF376619F@buxtonfamily.us</a>><br>
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Net::DNS::Zonefile hangs when reading this record (anonymized from original record):<br>
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144.2.0.192.in-addr.arpa. 900 IN PTR ilouse03146p0\(.<a href="http://example.com" target="_blank">example.com</a>.<br>
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I have several more examples of this in a dataset from a current customer.<br>
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Chris Buxton<br></blockquote><div> </div></div></div></div>
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