Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:34:27 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: ache@nagual.pp.ru Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, delphij@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/resolv res_comp.c Message-ID: <20080215.233427.1598351542.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20080216024541.GA31498@nagual.pp.ru> References: <200802160016.m1G0GnFB046558@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080216024541.GA31498@nagual.pp.ru>
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Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> writes:
: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 12:16:49AM +0000, Xin LI wrote:
: > delphij 2008-02-16 00:16:49 UTC
: >
: > FreeBSD src repository
: >
: > Modified files:
: > lib/libc/resolv res_comp.c
: > Log:
: > Allow underscore in domain names while resolving. While having underscore
: > is a violation of RFC 1034 [STD 13], it is accepted by certain name servers
: > as well as other popular operating systems' resolver library.
:
: Do you mean we'll have now different results from libc and from bind's
: resolver for names with underscore? If yes, it sounds worse than RFC
: violation committed.
Plus there was a very long, very heated thread about removing _ as a
valid name years ago. Have conditions changed since then? Frankly,
I'd like to have seen a change like this discussed more widely. There
was much debate before, and there turned out to be good reasons for
omitting the _. I just can't recall them now.
Warner
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