macomnet weird dns record

Tue Apr 14 13:54:23 UTC 2015

Are Roman numerals allowed in DNS? Because I know some people also do them.

dig -x 217.199.208.190

On 14/04/15 16:45, Chuck Church wrote:
> Comic Book Guy would probably declare:
> 
> "Worst Naming Convention Ever"
> 
> Chuck
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Colin Johnston
> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:27 AM
> To: Nikolay Shopik
> Cc: <nanog at nanog.org>
> Subject: Re: macomnet weird dns record
> 
> Because looks strange especially if the traffic is 100% bad Best practice
> says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug since mix of dec and
> hex 
> 
> Colin
> 
>> On 14 Apr 2015, at 14:09, Nikolay Shopik <shopik at inblock.ru> wrote:
>>
>> How its weird? All these chars allowed in DNS records.
>>
>> On 14/04/15 15:36, Colin Johnston wrote:
>>> never saw hex in host dns records before.
>>> host-242.strgz.87.118.199.240.0xfffffff0.macomnet.net
>>>
>>> range is blocked non the less since bad traffic from Russia network
> ranges.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
> 