Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:23:38 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: vladimir-bsd-stable@math.uic.edu Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd problems Message-ID: <200006100623.XAA22289@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <20000610060000.26723.qmail@math.uic.edu> from "vladimir-bsd-stable@math.uic.edu" at "Jun 10, 0 06:00:00 am"
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As I recall, vladimir-bsd-stable@math.uic.edu wrote: > BTW, should the '_' character be considered a valid character for a hostname? > I think rfc1034 only gives recommendations, but doesn't insist on them. > It would make sense for gethostbyname() to return results for such hosts. I can't quote you references right now, but we came to the conclusion that the '_' character was invalid in host names. We had similar problems delivering reports to customer's networked printers that contained underscores in their names. We eventually got the customer to change the '_' to '-'. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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