From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 15 05:35:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA23117 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 05:35:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (cyclone.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA23097 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 05:35:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte.lance@gmx.net) Received: from neuron.webmore.de (unverified [194.95.214.177]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 14:36:03 +0200 Received: (from malte.lance@gmx.net) by neuron.webmore.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA04983; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:34:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:34:57 +0200 (CEST) To: Adrian Chadd Cc: Doug White , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Underscores in domain names.. In-Reply-To: <199808150614.OAA28122@mail.creative.net.au> References: <199808150614.OAA28122@mail.creative.net.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13781.29108.920264.419745@neuron.webmore.de> Reply-To: malte.lance@gmx.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Adrian Chadd writes: > Doug White writes: > > > >On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > >> > >> Any idea on how to make FreeBSD's resolver allow underscores in domain names > >? > >> It seems to want to reject them as per the RFC, but there are a lot of sites > >> out there a proxy server SHOULD see that use them.. > > > >Well, they all violate RFC and no Macintosh can access them, so it's their > >own dumb fault whether they work or not. > > > >I would call it 'behavior is undefined'. > > I know this Doug :) The trouble is, when you're doing contract work for an > ISP who has had untold numbers of emails requesting why they can't get to > a certain website, and all the ISPs in Perth can, then its more a commercial > decision. (All the other ISPs in Perth run Linux btw..) Someone on questions had a .sig on that fact ... something like "... Linux ... the MicroSoft-thing of the Unix-world ... ". Don't recall exactly anymore ... too much bit-leaks in my brain. Malte. > > > Adrian > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message