Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:51:26 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: ache@nagual.pp.ru, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, delphij@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/resolv res_comp.c Message-ID: <863artw4wh.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20080215.233427.1598351542.imp@bsdimp.com> (M. Warner Losh's message of "Fri\, 15 Feb 2008 23\:34\:27 -0700 \(MST\)") References: <200802160016.m1G0GnFB046558@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080216024541.GA31498@nagual.pp.ru> <20080215.233427.1598351542.imp@bsdimp.com>
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"M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes: > 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. There are valid reasons for allowing it. Somebody[tm] (I'll leave it up to you to guess who) thought it was a good idea to use _ in DNS names used for automatic detection of web proxies and domain controllers, IIRC. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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