[dns-operations] Google's name servers compressing names in SRV records

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 04:40:51PM +0100, James Raftery wrote:
> But in RRs I've no special knowledge about how do I know that every 
> 0xc0 starts a domain name and isn't just some bits in a new, exotic 
> blob of RDATA?

You don't.  This is an important part of the point of the discussion
of compression in §4 of RFC 3597.

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