[db-wg] domain: object normalization

Hi Randy,

Randy Bush wrote:

>>%WARNING:905: fixed lookup key
>>%
>>% The key "193.0.1" has been changed to "193.0.1.0" for lookup.
> 
> 
> uh, that should that not be 193.0.0.1?
>

It probably should be.

> 
>>The server will return a similar warning for these cases:
>>
>>%WARNING:905: fixed lookup key
>>%
>>% The key "122.109.193.in-addr.arpa." has been changed to "122.109.193.in-addr.arpa" for lookup.
> 
> 
> as both 193.0.1 and domains with trailing dots are quite legal
> syntax, is a warning appropriate?  of what are you warning?
> 

We are warning that people might have made a typo, instead of using 
another valid form of an address or a name. It also indicates that the 
actual key in the database is [slightly] different.

> randy

Regards,

Andrei Robachevsky
RIPE NCC