Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:33:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>, Michael Mannsberger <mannsber@starmedia.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re:(2) hey Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908121526250.83229-100000@dt011n65.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <37B343A8.A94CD343@ispro.net.tr>
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On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > Well, I am the person who has this problem. > The RFCs does not explicitly say that we should not use underscore > character > as far as I understood. This is a common misunderstanding. The only valid characters in hostnames to be used on the global internet are letters, numbers and the dash character, "-". Underscores are not valid, at all, period. I realize that the RFC's don't seem to be clear on this point, however you can rest assured that such is the case. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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