And whomever added underscorechar() to that should be shot. There are good reasons to be able to distingish hostnames from other sorts of text. Adding '_' doesn't help one do that as it is impossible to distinguish underscored text from underscored hostnames.
This_is_a_title Mark In message <20151118212633.ga18...@sources.org>, Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:19:57PM +0000, > Phil Mayers <p.may...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote > a message of 44 lines which said: > > > I suspect getaddrinfo isn't parsing the DNS response for some reason. > ... > > Obviously the *.thing on the RHS of the first CNAME is weird, but is it > > illegal? > > Yes, for a *host* name (no for a *domain* name). See Tony Finch's > explanation. > > In the GNU libc, the relevant code is in resolv/res_comp.c and > includes this function, which tests that a *host* name is > a-z0-9\.\-+: > > #define alphachar(c) (((c) >= 0x41 && (c) <= 0x5a) \ > || ((c) >= 0x61 && (c) <= 0x7a)) > #define digitchar(c) ((c) >= 0x30 && (c) <= 0x39) > > #define borderchar(c) (alphachar(c) || digitchar(c)) > #define middlechar(c) (borderchar(c) || hyphenchar(c) || > underscorechar(c)) > #define domainchar(c) ((c) > 0x20 && (c) < 0x7f) > > int > res_hnok(const char *dn) { > int pch = PERIOD, ch = *dn++; > > while (ch != '\0') { > int nch = *dn++; > > if (periodchar(ch)) { > (void)NULL; > } else if (periodchar(pch)) { > if (!borderchar(ch)) > return (0); > } else if (periodchar(nch) || nch == '\0') { > if (!borderchar(ch)) > return (0); > } else { > if (!middlechar(ch)) > return (0); > } > pch = ch, ch = nch; > } > return (1); > } > _______________________________________________ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to > unsubscribe from this list > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users