host-name encoding

David W. Hankins David_Hankins at isc.org
Tue Oct 25 15:58:08 UTC 2005


Anyone have any recollection why host-name is encoded as a possibly-
hexadecimal-string ("X" rather than "t")?

        { "host-name", "X",                             &dhcp_universe, 12 },

"t" encodes any non-ascii's as octal escapes so...

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