From: Amin Azez <azez@ufomechanic.net>
To: Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt@freeshell.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: offtopic Re: iptables 1.3.6 not using /etc/networks
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:06:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45598719.5000206@ufomechanic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0611132106200.26099@ukato.freeshell.org>
* Alexey Toptygin wrote, On 13/11/06 21:23:
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Martijn Lievaart wrote:
>
>>> No, domains can't start with a digit. See RFC 1034:
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1034.txt
>>>
>> Domains can and do start with a digit, see RFC1912 section 2.1. Think
>> 3com.com.
>
> This is news to me, and isn't reflected in the current standard (which
> is still RFC 1034), but you are right that it's widely implemented. It
> seems wierd that the Host Requirements standard can override the DNS
> standard without the DNS standard being updated...
It's the same with SMTP, emails contain . in the left-hand-side despite
it being counter-RFC for years.
Perhaps the self depracating title of the standard has something to do
with it... anyway...
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-14 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-12 1:25 iptables 1.3.6 not using /etc/networks Laurence J. Lane
2006-11-12 2:35 ` Laurence J. Lane
2006-11-12 17:33 ` Phil Oester
2006-11-12 19:36 ` Alexey Toptygin
2006-11-12 19:43 ` Phil Oester
2006-11-13 0:58 ` Alexey Toptygin
2006-11-13 7:23 ` Martijn Lievaart
2006-11-13 15:50 ` Alexey Toptygin
2006-11-13 20:20 ` Martijn Lievaart
2006-11-13 21:23 ` Alexey Toptygin
2006-11-14 9:06 ` Amin Azez [this message]
2006-11-14 9:24 ` Benny Amorsen
2006-11-13 17:12 ` Phil Oester
2006-11-13 17:56 ` Alexey Toptygin
2006-11-13 19:50 ` scott comer (sccomer)
2006-11-18 22:09 ` Laurence J. Lane
2006-11-18 22:12 ` Laurence J. Lane
2006-11-20 0:00 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2006-11-23 14:10 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-11-23 20:56 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2006-11-24 5:55 ` Phil Oester
2006-11-24 8:43 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-11-29 4:44 ` Phil Oester
2006-11-29 12:50 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-11-29 14:09 ` Amin Azez
2006-11-29 14:21 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2006-11-19 20:34 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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