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  1. Bug #144431
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 144431

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Ian Jackson (ijackson) wrote :

RFC3696 s2 does not say that all-numeric labels are not permitted, only that all-numeric TLD's are not. Even if it did, the counterfactual that some invalid names are accepted would be irrelevant

gethostbyname is operating entirely correctly.