more spaces in PTRs, this time totisp.net

Ray Bellis ray at bellis.me.uk
Fri Oct 22 09:14:25 UTC 2021 


On 22/10/2021 06:39, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote:
> \032 is not a space.
> 
> Decimal 32 (0x20, \040) is a space.
> \032 is a Ctrl-Z (26 decimal, 0x1a)


In DNS zone files (and dig's presentation format) backslashed numbers
are in decimal, not octal - RFC 1035, §5.1.

Ray

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