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Re: COM/NET informational message
From: bert hubert <ahu () ds9a nl>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 20:24:49 +0100
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 07:15:43PM +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote:
Yes, comparisons are case-insensitive. So what? strcasecmp() works on ASCII strings. Now it must work on <new encoding x>. Why not let <new encoding x> be UTF-8, something programmers should support already? Maybe MS-style Unicode encoding? Why add yet another encoding?!
Even the current MS encoding does not work. Check out 130.161.180.1, which I think runs VMS. It does not even pass >127 characters to the root-servers. It is the nameserver for a /16. dig www.abc?.com A @130.161.180.1 <- www.abc\xfe.com
I fear I may be straying OT, for this is layers 6/7...
Hoping for all nameservers to magically break RFC compliance because you think a 'properly coded nameserver' should behave is naive to say the least. PowerDNS may well lowercase your query using functions not guaranteed to do anything useful on >127 characters. Perhaps they are being helpful and change capital-U-umlaut to lowercase-U-umlaut. Who knows. Regards, bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://lartc.org Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO http://netherlabs.nl Consulting
Current thread:
- Re: COM/NET informational message, (continued)
- Re: COM/NET informational message Leo Bicknell (Jan 03)
- Re: COM/NET informational message Måns Nilsson (Jan 04)
- Re: COM/NET informational message Neil J. McRae (Jan 03)
- Re: COM/NET informational message just me (Jan 03)
- Re: COM/NET informational message Marc Slemko (Jan 03)
- Re: COM/NET informational message Mike (meuon) Harrison (Jan 03)
- Re: COM/NET informational message bert hubert (Jan 03)
- Re: COM/NET informational message Leo Bicknell (Jan 04)
- Re: COM/NET informational message bdragon (Jan 04)
- Re: COM/NET informational message E.B. Dreger (Jan 03)
- Re: COM/NET informational message bert hubert (Jan 03)
- Re: COM/NET informational message Steven M. Bellovin (Jan 03)
- Re: COM/NET informational message E.B. Dreger (Jan 03)
- Re: COM/NET informational message Brandon Butterworth (Jan 03)
- Re: COM/NET informational message Daniel Senie (Jan 03)
- Re: COM/NET informational message Joel Rowbottom (Jan 06)
- Re: COM/NET informational message Steve Dyer (Jan 07)
- Re: COM/NET informational message Joel Rowbottom (Jan 07)
- Re: COM/NET informational message Neil J. McRae (Jan 07)
- Re: COM/NET informational message Joel Rowbottom (Jan 07)
- Re: COM/NET informational message Neil J. McRae (Jan 08)
- Re: COM/NET informational message Neil J. McRae (Jan 07)