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On Jul 1, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
The host SHOULD check the string syntactically for a dotted-decimal number before looking it up in the Domain Name System.which seems to reply to David Conrad's question: if all the implementations are correct, 127.0.0.1 will always be an IP address, even if the TLD ".1" is allocated.
Which might tie into the discussion regarding "SHOULD vs. MUST"... :-) Regards, -drc _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
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