On Feb 15, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Patrik Fältström <p...@frobbit.se> wrote:
> On 15 feb 2013, at 18:19, Joe Touch <to...@isi.edu> wrote: > >> - the Bert version uses DNS strings that aren't valid >> (*, +, ',', ++) > > Are we going to open again the question whether the DNS protocol can handle > any value in the octets, as compared to the hostname definition that says > something more limited? ;-) Sure -- the DNS protocol *cannot* "handle any value in the octets" -- in fact, there are an *infinite* number of values it cannot handle *in the octets*. For example, it cannot handle 257. It also cannot handle 321, nor 19.3... :-P W > > Patrik > -- Don't be impressed with unintelligible stuff said condescendingly. -- Radia Perlman.