Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:59:17 -0600 From: Marius Strom <marius@marius.org> To: David J Duchscher <daved@nostrum.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Resolver Issues (non valid hostname characters) Message-ID: <20030325155917.GE76682@marius.org> In-Reply-To: <DA188857-5E78-11D7-9A3A-0003930B3DA4@nostrum.com> References: <DA188857-5E78-11D7-9A3A-0003930B3DA4@nostrum.com>
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FWIW, I've been having trouble with domains that in particular have '_'
in the hostname.
I know it violates RFC952, but lots of people are using them now, for
good or bad. How about a compile-time flag to allow a "looser"
adherence to the RFC? (Yeah, I know this would likely be gross, and thus
I'll defer to people who are more familiar with FreeBSD internals here)
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Dave Duchscher wrote:
> It seems that the use of invalid characters in hostnames is cropping
> up more and more. Besides complaining to the offending site which
> often doesn't work, I was wondering if these restrictions on FreeBSD
> should be re-examined. At this time, it seems that many OSes are no
> longer enforcing this requirement or never have. In my case, I am
> running into a hostnames with an underscore character in the name. It
> seems that Linux, MacOS X, Solaris and Windows all allow this hostname
> to resolve but FreeBSD, as well as the other *BSD, reject it. Should
> FreeBSD follow suit?
>
> DaveD
>
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