From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 12 15:33:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975FE14C89 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:33:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA83291; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:33:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:33:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt011n65.san.rr.com To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: Bill Fumerola , Michael Mannsberger , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re:(2) hey In-Reply-To: <37B343A8.A94CD343@ispro.net.tr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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