Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
7470cc4c73
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1035#section-2.3.1 says (approximately) that only letters, numbers, and non-leading non-trailing dashes are allowed (for entries with A/AAAA records). We set no restrictions. hosts(5) says: > Host names may contain only alphanumeric characters, minus signs ("-"), and > periods ("."). They must begin with an alphabetic character and end with an > alphanumeric character. nss-files follows those rules, and will ignore names in /etc/hosts that do not follow this rule. Let's follow the documented rules for /etc/hosts. In particular, this makes us consitent with nss-files, reducing surprises for the user. I'm pretty sure we should apply stricter filtering to names received over DNS and LLMNR and MDNS, but it's a bigger project, because the rules differ depepending on which level the label appears (rules for top-level names are stricter), and this patch takes the minimalistic approach and only changes behaviour for /etc/hosts. Escape syntax is also disallowed in /etc/hosts, even if the resulting character would be allowed. Other tools that parse /etc/hosts do not support this, and there is no need to use it because no allowed characters benefit from escaping.
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