<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 18, 2013, at 7:08 PM, Chris Buxton <<a href="mailto:clists@buxtonfamily.us">clists@buxtonfamily.us</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">Hostnames are (supposed to be) restricted to letters, numbers, and hyphens. Domain names in general are fully 8 bit, other than the special character * and the terminal \000</span></blockquote></div><br><div>First... yes this is a bug. 8Bit clean is what the DNS is.</div><div><br></div><div>Second.. nit: there is no terminal \000 in the DNS wireformat. A domain name consists out of length octets followed by octets. With the final (root) octet being 0 length.</div><div><br></div><div>0x 02 00 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 (2 octets of zeros, followed by 5 octets of zeros, followed by zero length) is a perfectly valid domain name as far as the specs are concerned.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--Olaf</div></body></html>