#!/usr/bin/perl # **** License **** # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as # published by the Free Software Foundation. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # General Public License for more details. # # This code was originally developed by Vyatta, Inc. # Portions created by Vyatta are Copyright (C) 2010 Vyatta, Inc. # All Rights Reserved. # # **** End License **** use strict; use warnings; # Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System # Rules for forming domain names appear in RFC 1035, RFC 1123, and RFC 2181. # A domain name consists of one or more parts, technically called labels, # that are conventionally concatenated, and delimited by dots, # such as example.com. # # * The right-most label conveys the top-level domain; for example, # the domain name www.example.com belongs to the top-level domain com. # * The hierarchy of domains descends from right to left; each label to # the left specifies a subdivision, or subdomain of the domain to the # right. For example: the label example specifies a subdomain of the # com domain, and www is a sub domain of example.com. This tree of # subdivisions may have up to 127 levels. # # * Each label may contain up to 63 characters. The full domain name may # not exceed a total length of 253 characters in its external # dotted-label specification.[10] In the internal binary # representation of the DNS the maximum length requires 255 octets of # storage.[3] In practice, some domain registries may have shorter # limits.[citation needed] # # * DNS names may technically consist of any character representable in # an octet. However, the allowed formulation of domain names in the # DNS root zone, and most other sub domains, uses a preferred format # and character set. The characters allowed in a label are a subset # of the ASCII character set, and includes the characters a through # z, A through Z, digits 0 through 9, and the hyphen. This rule is # known as the LDH rule (letters, digits, hyphen). Domain names are # interpreted in case-independent manner. Labels may not start or end # with a hyphen.[11] foreach my $fqdn (@ARGV) { die "$fqdn: full domain length exceeds 253 characters\n" if length($fqdn) > 253; my @label = split /\./, $fqdn; die "$fqdn: domain name greater than 127 levels\n" if ($#label > 127); foreach my $label (@label) { die "$label: invalid character in domain name\n" unless $label =~ /^[-0-9a-zA-H]+$/; die "$label: label must not start or end with hyphen\n" if $label =~ /(^-)|(-$)/; die "$label: domain name element greater than 63 characters\n" if (length($label) > 63); } }