On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> The DNS specifications allow any character other than a dot in
> components of domain names.
Actually, dots are allowed too (!). The protocol-level representation of
DNS labels is a counted string so even nul characters are permitted (!!).
There's a syntax for escaping special characters in the zone master file
format described in RFC 1035.
Tony.
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<fanf@???> <dot@???>
http://dotat.at/ ${sg{\N${sg{\
N\}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}}\
\N}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}}