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To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Subject: Re: (2) hey 
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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:29:23 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199908122227.SAA87677@whizzo.transsys.com> "Louis A. Mamakos" writes:
: It violates the "starts with alpha" "requirement" in 952 and 1101
: that you quotes, yet we use these things all the time.  

That requirement has been relaxed.  See RFC 1123.

Bottom line is that _ is an illegal character in a hostname, and
FreeBSD is behaving correctly.

Warner


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