On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:56:45AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > They cannot be "interpreted as part of a dotted-quad" if everyone > follows RFC 1123 section 2.1 "The host SHOULD check the string > syntactically for a dotted-decimal number before looking it up in the > Domain Name System".
Funny you should say that, because RFC 1123 section 2.1 _also_ says, "However, a valid host name can never have the dotted-decimal form #.#.#.#, since at least the highest-level component label will be alphabetic." Therefore, I think appealing to the RFC 1123 rules for this case is going to be tricky. A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com Shinkuro, Inc. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop