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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> What? No! It's perfectly valid to have:<BR>
> mydomain.foo. IN NS ns1.example.org.<BR>
> mydomain.foo. IN NS 12.34.38.82<BR>
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As per RFC 1035:<BR>
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<domain-name> is a domain name represented as a series of labels, and<BR>
terminated by a label with zero length. <character-string> is a single<BR>
length octet followed by that number of characters. <character-string><BR>
is treated as binary information, and can be up to 256 characters in<BR>
length (including the length octet).<BR>
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and:<BR>
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3.3.11. NS RDATA format<BR>
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+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+<BR>
/ NSDNAME /<BR>
/ /<BR>
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+<BR>
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where:<BR>
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NSDNAME A <domain-name> which specifies a host which should be<BR>
authoritative for the specified class and domain.<BR>
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So, you surely should mean<BR>
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"mydomain.foo. IN NS 12.34.38.82." to comply with the required format?<BR>
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Andy<BR>
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