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 ".".

-- 
Sam Wilson
Network Services Division, Computing Services
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK



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