Re: macomnet weird dns record

[Nikolay Shopik <shopik () inblock ru>]

Are Roman numerals allowed in DNS? Because I know some people also do them.

dig -x 217.199.208.190


On 14/04/15 16:45, Chuck Church wrote:
> Comic Book Guy would probably declare:
>
> "Worst Naming Convention Ever"
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Colin Johnston
> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:27 AM
> To: Nikolay Shopik
> Cc: <nanog () nanog org>
> Subject: Re: macomnet weird dns record
>
> Because looks strange especially if the traffic is 100% bad Best practice
> says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug since mix of dec and
> hex 
>
> Colin
>
> > On 14 Apr 2015, at 14:09, Nikolay Shopik <shopik () inblock ru> wrote:
> >
> > How its weird? All these chars allowed in DNS records.
> >
> > On 14/04/15 15:36, Colin Johnston wrote:
> > > never saw hex in host dns records before.
> > > host-242.strgz.87.118.199.240.0xfffffff0.macomnet.net
> > >
> > > range is blocked non the less since bad traffic from Russia network
> ranges.
> > > Colin