> -----Original Message----- > From: Ted Lemon [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 8:37 PM > To: Dave Thaler > Cc: Alain Durand; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Softwires] draft-ietf-softwire-ds-lite-tunnel-option-06 > > On Nov 10, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Dave Thaler wrote: > > Personally I'd prefer saying less, rather than more. > > That is, it's a string that is to be passed to the name resolver library. > > I wouldn't mention the search path, since that's not done by the DHCP > > client, it's done (or not) by the name resolver library. > > Fair enough, but just to be clear, the format that's being used by this > option is a > format for passing FQDNs, not a format for passing labels. So the resolver > is > not supposed to use a search list at all when interpreting options in this > format. > That is what the zero-length label at the end is supposed to mean.
It is my understanding that if the string passed to a name resolver library contains dots, no search list should be used. (Reference: RFC 1535) The Windows name resolver library does strictly adhere to this (it never uses a search list with a string containing dots). -Dave _______________________________________________ Softwires mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/softwires
