Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:07:12 -0600 From: David J Duchscher <daved@nostrum.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Resolver Issues (non valid hostname characters) Message-ID: <2B965AA0-606E-11D7-80C5-0003930B3DA4@nostrum.com> In-Reply-To: <3E8226DC.9B005E01@mindspring.com>
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On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 04:17 PM, Terry Lambert wrote: > David J Duchscher wrote: >> Since I don't believe I can create such a program to your >> specification, >> I guess you win. All I can say is that gethostbyname will return host >> names with underscore character on the those operating systems. > > I think you can. You can write a program which looks up the > IP of "demo_host" in some domain under your own control, in > which you have created the record for "demo_host" with an IP > address of 1.1.1.1. > > Then you run the program, and it does a forward lookup on > the name, and prints the first message if it gets "1.1.1.1", > and prints the second if it gets and error. > > I would do this for you, but since I believe all hosts I own > comply with RFC-952, I am unable to create the DNS record for > testing. > > > For bonus points, use a free IP address in your addres block, > instead of 1.1.1.1, and, if the lookup is successful, do a > reverse lookup, too, and make sure both gethostbyname() and > gethostbyaddr() work the way you say they work. Is that all, why didn't you say so in the first place. When someone says 100% accuracy, it pretty much has the meaning to me that you are not going succeed because you will never meet their definition of 100%. DaveD
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