On Mon, Feb 13, 2006, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 01:34:28AM -0700, Kyle Hamilton wrote: > > > It can be an IP, but I'm not sure about the > > encoding rules for it (SMTP requires an IP in the destination field to > > be in the form [192.168.1.1] (in square brackets) > > This is really the "domain literal" construct in the mailbox grammar of > RFC822/821. It is not used alone. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
The semantics for dNSName, which this refers to are stricter. It has to be a hostname, cannot be an IP address (the iPAddress form is for that) and cannot contain wild cards. This is mentioned in RFC3280 et al. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. Funding needed! Details on homepage. Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
