I think there is a growing consensus among network engineers that ICANN and a few at IETF (at least a few years ago) weren't 100% honest regarding how DNS wildcards work.
I think we can all agree that the RFCs keep it vague enough that no one can say for sure how wildcards work. This was I think a point of contention in fact when ICANN took over from IANA in 1998. Another good example of what I think qualifies as deception in regards to DNS is ccTLD vs gTLD. For instance, is .ms gTLD (Microsoft uses it) or ccTLD (for the island nation of Montserrat). No one knows... On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 8:21 AM Salz, Rich <rsalz= [email protected]> wrote: > > > I don't think that makes the above text incorrect, since this draft > > > says "only the first label" > > > Sort of. The text I quoted does not. You could say "can only match > the leftmost label in ...". > > Assuming we have consensus, the PR on this says that the wildcard > character can only be the first label, so I think it's set. > > _______________________________________________ > Uta mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/uta >
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