A-label definition

[Mark Andrews]

> Mark Andrews wrote:
> 
> > At best there is guidance not to allocate a TLD which will
> > potentially clash with a representation of a IPv4 address.
>  
> > 0xde.0xad.0xbe.0xef
> > 222.137.190.239
> > 0xdeadbeef
> > 0337.0211.0276.0357
> > 033653337357
> > 3735928559
> 
> The 0x concept would break various of my scripts based on 
> "if it only contains the characters '0.123456789' it might
>  be an IPv4, and it is no FQDN (or vice versa)".  

	Well you scripts are most probably already broken.

% telnet 0x7f.0x01
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
%

	Mark
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