Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing
Jimmy Hess
mysidia at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 05:47:11 UTC 2012
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
>> DNS is case-insensitive when you are talking about 7-bit ASCII
> < pedantry >
> dns itself is purely eight bit transparent. one can even have a dot as
> a non-separator. p.r.c could be a tld. it's strictly length/value.
That's true, but there is no standard character representation for
octet values 128 - 255.
If you use them in a DNS record, they are just binary values that
don't refer to a specific printable symbol.
Only octets in the range from 65 to 90 (uppercase) and 977 to 122
(lowercase)
have a case equivalent for DNS resolution.
And IDN uses 7-bit ASCII DNS records.
--
-JH
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