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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:00:28 -0700
From:      Ben Mesander <ben@timing.com>
To:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Allow underscores in DNS names
Message-ID:  <16008.29740.33859.344866@piglet.timing.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030331141452.F79544@gothmog>
References:  <xzpu1dm2k2h.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030329.164403.54601077.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030330.060534.18864762.imp@bsdimp.com> <xzpel4phrcs.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030331141452.F79544@gothmog>

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Giorgos Keramidas writes:
 > If everyone else supports underscores (I've only tested Solaris and
 > Linux 2.4.20), then perhaps, just for the sake of interoperability
 > with other systems, we should too.

I do not know if this is still the case, but in the past, some MTA
implementations refused to deliver mail to hosts with '_' in the name.

--Ben



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