Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:49:09 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: louie@TransSys.COM Cc: des@ofug.org Subject: Re: Allow underscores in DNS names Message-ID: <20030330.104909.01577314.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <200303301623.h2UGNHDN042824@whizzo.transsys.com> References: <xzp4r5ljitl.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030330.060534.18864762.imp@bsdimp.com> <200303301623.h2UGNHDN042824@whizzo.transsys.com>
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"Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> writes:
: > In message: <xzp4r5ljitl.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
: > des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
: > : "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
: > : > When this has come up in the past, it was decreed that _ is a bad bad
: > : > bad bad idea, even though people want it. You might want to check the
: > : > ancient archives (1998?) for all the reasons why.
: > :
: > : Arguments presented in ancient archives are not necessarily relevant
: > : five years later.
: >
: > True. However, they are still relevant today. '_' is illegal in DNS
: > names, is rejected by the majority of hosts on the internet and
: > generally is a bad idea. If you do it, make it optional.
:
: Strictly speaking, the '_' is illegal in HOSTNAMES. The DNS can contains
: objects other than those used as hostnames, and the protocols support
: arbitrary strings of octets which can be used as labels in DNS names.
:
: It's the application of looking up host names using the DNS which is
: in question. And if underscore characters are so toxic in hostnames,
: then why are they allowed in /etc/hosts or NIS-dervied lookups?
The question is one of standards conformance and what implementations
of DNS do when they get an illegal character.
Warner
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