Asterisk in RRs?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 08:40:46AM +1200,
 Kerry Thompson <kerry at security.geek.nz> wrote 
 a message of 18 lines which said:

> RFC 952 and RFC 1123 define allowable characters as A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and '-'
> only. 

These two RFC are not about the DNS. For the DNS, read RFC 1034, 1035
and 2181.

I quote RFC 2181, section 11:

   Those restrictions
   aside, any binary string whatever can be used as the label of any
   resource record. 

> Most DNS implementations (such as BIND) support a much wider range
> but may or may not work with other servers and clients.

Of course, it will work, it is standard DNS.

> Ref http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/apa/names.html

Bad Web page, wrong explanations.