On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:33:08PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
<snip> 
> Note that, as a result of pressure long ago from a certain multinational 
> company whose name starts with the digit 3, components of domain names 
> are permitted start with digits. Thus, an IPv4 address is a 
> syntactically valid domain name. A nameserver cannot therefore object to 
> being told to load a record such as
> 
>   xxx  MX  1  1.2.3.4
>   
> because, syntactically, "1.2.3.4" *could* be a domain name. Sigh. 
> 

Now that would be confusing.

Steven.

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