[leafnode-list] Re: These names are illegal?

[Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 18:00:02 +0200 Cecil Westerhof
<cldwesterhof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>When fetching news I get 152 lines like the following:
>    Warning: skipping group ".", invalid name (NULL component).
>    Warning: skipping group "...", invalid name (NULL component).
>    Warning: skipping group ".alt.california", invalid name (NULL
> component). Warning: skipping group ".alt.consciousness.4th-way",
> invalid name
>(NULL component).
>    Warning: skipping group ".alt.fan.karl-malden.nose", invalid name
>(NULL component).
>    Warning: skipping group ".alt.politics.liberalism", invalid name
>(NULL component).
>    Warning: skipping group ".alt.usenet.kooks", invalid name (NULL
> component).
>
>I already added 'nodesc = 1' in my config. Before it was even worse.
>
>When looking to the names that give an error I see that they start or
>end with a dot, or that there are two dots after eachother in the
>name. This is not allowed?

Effectively, no.

See <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5536#section-3.1.4>.

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