[dns-operations] about the rName with dot

[Mark Andrews]

In message <535E6917.90606 at terra.com>, Ken Peng writes:
> Hi,
> 
> For the rName in SOA, when the username has a dot,shall it be converted
> to "\."?

Yes.  This is documented in RFC 1035, Section 8. MAIL SUPPORT.

> For example, user's email is john.smith at rackspace.com, so it appears in
> SOA as john\.smith.rackspace.com, is it?
> Is there a live example for this kind of rName? Thanks.
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