Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:58:13 +0100 From: Pawel Worach <pawel.worach@gmail.com> To: =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, ache@nagual.pp.ru, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, delphij@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/resolv res_comp.c Message-ID: <47B6EBF5.3030505@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <863artw4wh.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <200802160016.m1G0GnFB046558@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080216024541.GA31498@nagual.pp.ru> <20080215.233427.1598351542.imp@bsdimp.com> <863artw4wh.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes: >> Plus there was a very long, very heated thread about removing _ as a >> valid name years ago. Have conditions changed since then? Frankly, >> I'd like to have seen a change like this discussed more widely. There >> was much debate before, and there turned out to be good reasons for >> omitting the _. I just can't recall them now. > > There are valid reasons for allowing it. Somebody[tm] (I'll leave it up > to you to guess who) thought it was a good idea to use _ in DNS names > used for automatic detection of web proxies and domain controllers, IIRC. > BIND allows it in SRV records but not in A records. -- Pawel
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