[149718] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Mon Feb 13 00:56:04 2012
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:55:00 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2lio7mgzt.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 09:36:54PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> > DNS is case-insensitive when you are talking about 7-bit ASCII
>
> < pedantry >
>
> dns itself is purely eight bit transparent. one can even have a dot as
> a non-separator. p.r.c could be a tld. it's strictly length/value.
>
> of course, everyone and their dog has placed restrictions on it for this
> use or that.
>
> randy
ah, the good'ol days. ^g.net as an early attempt for the visually impaired
lasted for a couple months. about the same time you received your IPv4 /33
/bill
