From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 12 18:30:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B47D014BF5 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 18:30:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA25359; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:30:31 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id TAA07072; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:30:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199908130130.TAA07072@harmony.village.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: (2) hey Cc: Evren Yurtesen , Bill Fumerola , Michael Mannsberger , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:39:02 PDT." <25455.934497542@localhost> References: <25455.934497542@localhost> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:30:26 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <25455.934497542@localhost> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: : > So Solaris does the right thing by understanding underscore I guess. : > Since it is not forbidden to use it in hostnames. : : It does not do the right thing and it is indeed forbidden. :) Also, all modern versions of bind specifically prohibit all characters that are not allowed to make writing buffer overflow easter eggs much harder. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message