On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 16:44:50, Tom Baker|Netsmith Inc wrote:
> ...
> What brings this up is I spent half the day arguing with some list provider
> because their HELO is an IP address, and is not ip-literal as the RFC asks.
> I kept quoting the RFC and they said they believed they were following and
> would not change. ...
=== begin snipits of RFC 2821 ===
address-literal = "[" IPv4-address-literal /
IPv6-address-literal /
General-address-literal "]"
; See section 4.1.3
4.1.3 Address Literals
... For
IPv4 addresses, this form uses four small decimal integers separated
by dots and enclosed by brackets such as [123.255.37.2],
IPv4-address-literal = Snum 3("." Snum)
Snum = 1*3DIGIT ; representing a decimal integer
; value in the range 0 through 255
=== end snipits ===
What part don't they comprehend?
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