From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 16 16:19:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A860616A418; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:19:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from ameno.mahoroba.org (ent.mahoroba.org [IPv6:2001:2f0:104:8010::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2800013C465; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:19:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from kasuga.mahoroba.org (IDENT:6GvGwxEofBv8loZxps9+/mpaXEs7eEGe5bdUY8E20T2dR0qxOsAQ2KMiEtjU4dS6@kasuga.mahoroba.org [IPv6:2001:2f0:104:8010:20b:97ff:fe2e:b521]) (user=ume mech=CRAM-MD5 bits=0) by ameno.mahoroba.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP/inet6 id m1GGJKwf040895 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:19:21 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:19:20 +0900 Message-ID: From: Hajimu UMEMOTO To: Pawel Worach In-Reply-To: <47B6EBF5.3030505@gmail.com> References: <200802160016.m1G0GnFB046558@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080216024541.GA31498@nagual.pp.ru> <20080215.233427.1598351542.imp@bsdimp.com> <863artw4wh.fsf@ds4.des.no> <47B6EBF5.3030505@gmail.com> User-Agent: xcite1.57> Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/22.1 (i386-pc-freebsd) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 X-PGP-Key: http://www.imasy.or.jp/~ume/publickey.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1F00 0B9E 2164 70FC 6DC5 BF5F 04E9 F086 BF90 71FE Organization: Internet Mutual Aid Society, YOKOHAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (ameno.mahoroba.org [IPv6:2001:2f0:104:8010::1]); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:19:24 +0900 (JST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on ameno.mahoroba.org Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, ache@nagual.pp.ru, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, delphij@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= , "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/resolv res_comp.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:19:55 -0000 Hi, >>>>> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:58:13 +0100 >>>>> Pawel Worach said: pawel> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > "M. Warner Losh" 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 pawel> BIND allows it in SRV records but not in A records. Not all DNS servers are BIND. Though use of `_' in hostname violates RFC, some implementations of DNS server allow it, and it is used actually. Sincerely, -- Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan ume@mahoroba.org ume@{,jp.}FreeBSD.org http://www.imasy.org/~ume/