From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 27 21:32:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA06970 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 21:32:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA06943 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 21:31:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA03121 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 06:31:43 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id GAA16178 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 06:31:00 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.3/keltia-uucp-2.9) id AAA12129; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 00:41:15 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 00:41:14 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libc References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.52 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2738 In-Reply-To: ; from Brian Campbell on Nov 27, 1996 00:15:32 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Brian Campbell: > Further, it appears that someone (a new RFC? what number?) decided, in > libc.so.3, that underscores, slashes and who-knows-what-else are invalid > characters in DNS. So a lot of time gets wasted (on traceroute or > netstat) resolving names that the resolver code in libc will refuse to > display. "_" has never been officially allowed in hostnames. Paul Vixie decided to enforce this in 4.9.4. There is a command you can put in named.boot to allow them. This is a named issue, not a resolver one. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #29: Sun Nov 24 16:05:46 MET 1996