* makes adding names to messages easy. Having much of the server know
* the representation would be perilous, and we certainly don't want each
* user of names to be manipulating such a low-level structure. This is
- * where the Names and Labels module comes in. The module allows name or
- * label handles to be created and attached to uncompressed wire format
- * regions. All name operations and conversions are done through these
+ * where the Names and Labels module comes in. The module allows name
+ * handles to be created and attached to uncompressed wire format
+ * regions. All name operations and conversions are done through these
* handles.
*
* MP:
* Standards:
*\li RFC1035
*\li Draft EDNS0 (0)
- *\li Draft Binary Labels (2)
*
*/
ISC_LANG_BEGINDECLS
-/*****
-***** Labels
-*****
-***** A 'label' is basically a region. It contains one DNS wire format
-***** label of type 00 (ordinary).
-*****/
-
/*****
***** Names
*****
***** A 'name' is a handle to a binary region. It contains a sequence of one
-***** or more DNS wire format labels of type 00 (ordinary).
+***** or more DNS wire format labels.
***** Note that all names are not required to end with the root label,
***** as they are in the actual DNS wire protocol.
*****/