[168424] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GoDaddy DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Sat Jan 25 04:20:42 2014
In-Reply-To: <m21tzwe9px.wl%randy@psg.com>
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 03:20:07 -0600
To: Randy Bush <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 Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> > I should be clear that there are no bangs (!) in dns.
>
> the dns is 8-bit clean. bangs, dots (not as separators), blanks, etc.
> are all valid. some applications may have trouble with use of some of
> these :)
>
Not in the right-hand side (RDATA portion) of a type A record.
The 32 bits will be interpreted as the bits of an IPv4 address, which are
always 4 numeric values (0 to 255) separated by dots.
"www.godaddy.com. 14 IN A zippidty-doo.com!"
Is right out.
If it were a "HS TXT", CH TXT, IN TXT, IN CNAME, IN NS, IN MX, IN SRV,
or other similar fields, then sure.
> randy
>
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-JH
