From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 12 18:34:11 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 6CFA514BF5 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 18:34:07 -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 TAA25376; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:32:47 -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 TAA07099; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:32:42 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199908130132.TAA07099@harmony.village.org> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: (2) hey Cc: Doug , Glenn Chisholm , Evren Yurtesen , Bill Fumerola , Michael Mannsberger , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.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> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:32:42 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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