Ronald F. Guilmette <[email protected]> wrote: > > In a nutshell, I'd just like to know whether or not Punycode > encoded strings may ever validly contain either (a) leading > periods or else (b) two consecutive periods. Would any strings > that contain either of those things be considered to be "valid" > Punycode encoded strings?
No. For details see RFCs 5891, 5892, and 3492. > To be more specific and concrete about it, here is a small > example Perl program I wrote: > > ftp://ftp.tristatelogic.com/pub/punybug.pl > > When *I* run this, it prints out several "Invalid punycode!" > errors. I think that is because the function you are calling is intended for encoding individual labels, not whole domain names. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ Trafalgar: Cyclonic in northwest, otherwise mainly northerly or northwesterly 5 or 6. Slight or moderate. Showers in northwest. Good. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
