Looking for RFC
Sam Wilson
Sam.Wilson at ed.ac.uk
Mon Jan 10 11:52:06 UTC 2000
In article <200001070119.MAA26367 at bsdi.dv.isc.org>,
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
>> The naming restrictions aren't applied to non-A records (well, they might
>> be applied to MX records as well, since the part after the @ in an email
>> address is required to be a hostname).
>>
> They are applied to MX owners and rdata fields the contain email
> addresses as RFC 822 limits what is legal as a mail domain. RFC
> 822 and RFC 952 have the same syntax.
Are you sure about this? The way I read 822 it's much more liberal than
952/1123 except that you can't have a trailing ".".
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Sam Wilson
Network Services Division, Computing Services
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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