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From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Subject: Re: bin/2638: gethostbyname does not work with hosts with underscores.
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2638; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
To: faulkner@utgard.hos.net
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/2638: gethostbyname does not work with hosts with underscores.
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 21:07:45 +0100

 According to Boyd Faulkner:
 > gethostbyname does not work with hostnames that contain an underscore.
 > ping puma_cb19.austx.tandem.com should produce host resolution but not ping.
 > <Host is behind firewall>.  2.1.6.1 works and returns an address.
 
 That's expected. "_" is forbidden in hostnames and bind now enforces it.
 -- 
 Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
   FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #37: Mon Jan 27 23:21:10 CET 1997