Re: weaknesses in dns label decoding,

From: Pavel Kankovsky (peakat_private)
Date: Wed Jun 02 1999 - 14:00:27 PDT

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On Mon, 31 May 1999, bobk wrote:

> Another thing to remember is that it is possible to put ABSOLUTELY
> ANYTHING inside a DNS domain name. This includes whitespace, control
> characters, and even NULL.

Use BIND's check-names option to refuse illegal answers.

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
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