On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Tony Finch wrote: > On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Hamish Marson wrote: > > > > The RFC's actually state that a domain MUST start with a letter, and > > be any letter or digit or hyphen after. So according to the RFC's > > purely numberic domains are illegal. > > No! Wrong! Totally wrong! If they were illegal they would never have been > allocated. Duh. > > RFC 1123 section 2.1: > > The syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952 > [DNS:4]. One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the > restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a > letter or a digit. Host software MUST support this more liberal > syntax.
...I guess not. Dammit, when am I going to learn to read my mailbox in *reverse* chronological order? -- John Hardin KA7OHZ ICQ#15735746 http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The difference is that Unix has had thirty years of technical types demanding basic functionality of it. And the Macintosh has had fifteen years of interface fascist users shaping its progress. Windows has the hairpin turns of the Microsoft marketing machine and that's all. -- Red Drag Diva -----------------------------------------------------------------------
