From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 29 12:41:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7448B37B401 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:41:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF45843F3F for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:41:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) id h2TKf4Qw027665; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:41:04 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:41:04 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Message-ID: <20030329204104.GF74971@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Allow underscores in DNS names X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 20:41:31 -0000 In the last episode (Mar 29), Dag-Erling Smorgrav said: > The attached patch, inspired by a discussion on -STABLE, modifies our > resolver library to allow underscores in host names, by classifying > the underscore as a hyphen character. Even though RFC952 forbids > them, underscores are becoming increasingly common in DNS, and they > are sometimes used for mechanisms (such as Microsoft's automatic proxy > configuration scheme) which we might want to support in FreeBSD. I thought proxy autodetect used wpad.domainname.com or looked up http://domainname.com/wpad.dat ? All the XP machines here do that. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com