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

[Dick Franks]

On 18 June 2013 13:51, Miek Gieben <miek at miek.nl> wrote:

> 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
>
> I agree.


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.
>>
>
Necessary because mandated by RFC1035.





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