[131077] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: network name 101100010100110.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Wed Oct 20 10:22:52 2010
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:22:45 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
In-Reply-To: <8C26A4FDAE599041A13EB499117D3C28406262FC@ex-mb-2.corp.atlasnetworks.us>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Nathan Eisenberg wrote:
> > I'm assuming we aren't making jokes here, but 3com.com was created in
> > 1986:
>
> I'm confused. 3com.com would not appear to be entirely numerical. Or
> maybe someone spiked my coffee this morning.
Once leading digits became permitted, the syntax was relaxed to allow
all-numeric labels. See RFC 1123.
Tony.
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