[dns-operations] DNS request for ./NS with two extra bytes at the end

Frank Habicht geier at geier.ne.tz
Fri May 27 04:48:42 UTC 2022


On 26/05/2022 22:37, John Levine wrote:
> It appears that Brown, William <wbrown at e1b.org> said:
>> -=-=-=-=-=-
>> It made sense 40 years ago when it was written.  In today’s security environment,  it does not.
> 
> It made sense and still makes sense when you know what Postel meant.
> 
> Be liberal in what you accept when the specification is ambiguous, not
> accept any random garbage and try to guess what it means.

I also want to interpret it as "be resilient to anything thrown at you".

Frank



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