Re: ascii decoder

[Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh () POP JARING MY>]

At 11:30 AM 10/12/00 -0400, Jefferson Ogata wrote:
> Slawek wrote:
> > rfc 1033: "DOMAIN ADMINISTRATORS OPERATIONS GUIDE"
> >
> > NAMES
> > only the following characters are recommended for use in a host name
> > (besides the dot separator):
> >            "A-Z", "a-z", "0-9", dash and underscore
> >
> > Anyway if somebody can confirm it's not allowed to use underscore in the
> > hostname, I can show it's easy to modify the decoder so it will not be
using
> > it anymore ;)
>
> For the following discussion, please try to remember that "host names" and
> "domain names" are two different things. Host names are sometimes encoded and

Also, theory != practice, same goes for RFC and implementations and for
finding vulnerabilities usually implementations count more than RFCs.

Often easier to break stuff where there are cracks ;).

Cheerio,
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