On 11/05/09 11:17, Rob van der Heij wrote:
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Jack Woehr <[email protected]> wrote:
But it's on VMTOOLS and that's part of the distrib, right, not something I
can download and look at the Rexx?
It has nothing to do with the built-in stage, so would not be helpful
to see the cause.
From what I can tell, CMS Pipelines just decides it must be an IP
address based on the first character of the parameter. I believe this
was a valid test in the past (until 3COM got some arms bent for the
domain).
I was unaware of such arm-bending. However RFCs 882 and 883 (November
1983) say:
Appendix 1 - Domain Name Syntax Specification
The preferred syntax of domain names is given by the following BNF
rules. Adherence to this syntax will result in fewer problems ...
The labels must follow the rules for ARPANET host names. They must
start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior
characters only letters, digits, and hyphen. ...
"preferred" is dismayingly noncommittal.
RFC 1035 (November 1987) describes a binary form which allows any octet
(even ".") to appear within a label, but specifies no representation as
text. Ugh. Does anyone know of an RFC that's more definitive about this?
-- gil
