Re: ASCII Char 255 crashes a network

[Scott Treacy <scott.treacy () HARRIERZEUROS CO UK>]

I don't think this will work because the only valid charters in domains &
domain names are "a-z 0-9 . - _". Therefore the "< >" symbols should cause
an error processing the zonefile and the ASCII 255 will not propagate to the
DNS system. Pity, you could have some fun blue screening all those dumb
enough to run DNS on an NT box (if that's where the fault is).

Scott
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark [SMTP:tort () DETHBYSTEREO COM]
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 5:20 AM
> To:   VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM
> Subject:      Re: ASCII Char 255 crashes a network
>
> Try <ALT-255>.dethbystereo.com, i dont have a NT box to check it on.  Is
> this a netware problem or an NT problem though?
>
>
> Mark
> tort () dethbystereo com
>
> George wrote:
> > What do you suppose would happen if I created a domain on a linux DNS
> server
> > called
> >
> > <alt 255>