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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sun,  9 Sep 2012 00:26:25 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] dns
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On Sat Sep  8 23:02:25 EDT 2012, charles.forsyth@gmail.com wrote:

> No, I didn't explain it well.  NETPATHLEN isn't named in the manual
> pages, so ndb/dns doesn't use it.  On the other hand, dial does, but
> because it's ...LEN, it's an easy mistake to think of it as the length
> of a string, which wouldn't include the terminating zero byte, instead
> of the length of the underlying array.

indeed, a fair number of recent dns issues have been this sort of confusion.
there is something in ndb/dns (at least for me) that induces confusion.

- erik