On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:19:57PM +0000,
Phil Mayers <p.may...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote
a message of 44 lines which said:
> I suspect getaddrinfo isn't parsing the DNS response for some reason.
...
> Obviously the *.thing on the RHS of the first CNAME is weird, but is it
> illegal?
Yes, for a *host* name (no for a *domain* name). See Tony Finch's
explanation.
In the GNU libc, the relevant code is in resolv/res_comp.c and
includes this function, which tests that a *host* name is
[a-z0-9\.\-]+ :
#define alphachar(c) (((c) >= 0x41 && (c) <= 0x5a) \
|| ((c) >= 0x61 && (c) <= 0x7a))
#define digitchar(c) ((c) >= 0x30 && (c) <= 0x39)
#define borderchar(c) (alphachar(c) || digitchar(c))
#define middlechar(c) (borderchar(c) || hyphenchar(c) || underscorechar(c))
#define domainchar(c) ((c) > 0x20 && (c) < 0x7f)
int
res_hnok(const char *dn) {
int pch = PERIOD, ch = *dn++;
while (ch != '\0') {
int nch = *dn++;
if (periodchar(ch)) {
(void)NULL;
} else if (periodchar(pch)) {
if (!borderchar(ch))
return (0);
} else if (periodchar(nch) || nch == '\0') {
if (!borderchar(ch))
return (0);
} else {
if (!middlechar(ch))
return (0);
}
pch = ch, ch = nch;
}
return (1);
}
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