[net-dns-users] Fwd: Bug report: Net::DNS::Zonefile fails to read escaped parenthesis

[Miek Gieben]

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

Grtz Miek
On 18 Jun 2013 13:44, "Bob Harold" <rharolde at umich.edu> wrote:

>
> "\" and "(" are invalid characters in DNS names.
> See RFC 952 and 1123.
>
> While it might be nice for Net::DNS::Zonefile to handle them, it is really
> not necessary.
> So I would consider this an odd feature request, not a bug.
>
> --
> Bob
>
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 6:00 AM, <net-dns-users-request at nlnetlabs.nl>wrote:
>
>>
>> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:08:56 -0700
>> From: Chris Buxton <clists at buxtonfamily.us>
>> To: "net-dns-users at nlnetlabs.nl" <net-dns-users at nlnetlabs.nl>
>> Subject: [net-dns-users] Bug report: Net::DNS::Zonefile fails to read
>>         escaped parenthesis
>> Message-ID: <3C89B9F1-711B-4F48-9435-681EF376619F at buxtonfamily.us>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>
>> Net::DNS::Zonefile hangs when reading this record (anonymized from
>> original record):
>>
>> 144.2.0.192.in-addr.arpa.                     900 IN PTR
>>  ilouse03146p0\(.example.com.
>>
>> I have several more examples of this in a dataset from a current customer.
>>
>> Chris Buxton
>>
>
>
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