Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:32:42 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Doug <Doug@gorean.org>, Glenn Chisholm <glenn@ircache.net>, Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>, Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>, Michael Mannsberger <mannsber@starmedia.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (2) hey Message-ID: <199908130132.TAA07099@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:08:20 EDT." <199908122308.TAA88002@whizzo.transsys.com> References: <199908122308.TAA88002@whizzo.transsys.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908121548240.83547-100000@dt011n65.san.rr.com>
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In message <199908122308.TAA88002@whizzo.transsys.com> "Louis A. Mamakos" writes: : The DNS can store names where the values used for each octet of a : label in a DNS name can have any value at all between 0 and 255, : including " ", ".", and other rude things. The general purpose : mechansim can be (ab)sed for all sorts of purposes not originally : envisioned (like Hesiod - you want to exclude "_" from user names?) This is true. However, for hostnames, such uses are illegal. That's what we're talking about here. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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