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Subject: Re: ascii decoder
From: Lincoln Yeoh (lyeohPOP.JARING.MY)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 11:57:05 CDT

At 11:30 AM 10/12/00 -0400, Jefferson Ogata wrote:
>Slawek wrote:
>> rfc 1033: "DOMAIN ADMINISTRATORS OPERATIONS GUIDE"
>>
>> NAMES
>> only the following characters are recommended for use in a host name
>> (besides the dot separator):
>> "A-Z", "a-z", "0-9", dash and underscore
>>
>> Anyway if somebody can confirm it's not allowed to use underscore in the
>> hostname, I can show it's easy to modify the decoder so it will not be
using
>> it anymore ;)
>
>For the following discussion, please try to remember that "host names" and
>"domain names" are two different things. Host names are sometimes encoded and

Also, theory != practice, same goes for RFC and implementations and for
finding vulnerabilities usually implementations count more than RFCs.

Often easier to break stuff where there are cracks ;).

Cheerio,
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