more spaces in PTRs, this time totisp.net

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Fri Oct 22 09:26:24 UTC 2021


\032 is space. Go read STD13 aka RFC 1034 and RFC 1035. 

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Mark Andrews

> On 22 Oct 2021, at 16:40, Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
> 
> \032 is not a space.
> 
> Decimal 32 (0x20, \040) is a space.
> \032 is a Ctrl-Z (26 decimal, 0x1a)
> 
> Owen
> 
> 
>> On Oct 21, 2021, at 22:14 , Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Typo I’d say. DB-drive  DNS servers, which don’t keep their entries in traditional PTR-record text format, can fall victim to this. Rather than parse the text every times, they just spit out whatever is in the table column, even if it has embedded spaces. I’ve seen this happen in SnitchDNS. 
>> 
>> -mel via cell
>> 
>>>> On Oct 21, 2021, at 9:08 PM, Steven Champeon <schampeo at hesketh.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Anyone?
>>> 
>>> 1.179.154.11:1-179-180.11.cisp.totisp.\\ net
>>> 
>>> dig -x 1.179.154.11
>>> 
>>> 11.154.179.1.in-addr.arpa. 7200    IN    PTR    1-179-180.11.cisp.totisp.\032net.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> hesketh.com/inc. v: +1(919)834-2552 f: +1(919)834-2553 w: http://hesketh.com/
>>> Internet security and antispam hostname intelligence: http://enemieslist.com/
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