On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Hamish Marson wrote:
>
> The RFC's actually state that a domain MUST start with a letter, and
> be any letter or digit or hyphen after. So according to the RFC's
> purely numberic domains are illegal.
No! Wrong! Totally wrong! If they were illegal they would never have been
allocated. Duh.
RFC 1123 section 2.1:
The syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952
[DNS:4]. One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the
restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a
letter or a digit. Host software MUST support this more liberal
syntax.
Tony.
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