Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:14:12 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Illegal Characters in Hostname Message-ID: <20020227181412.GB2129@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <1014814919.1768.31.camel@fourier> References: <1014747407.93220.41.camel@dev.nethouse.com> <1014814919.1768.31.camel@fourier>
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:01:58AM -0500, Bill Triplett wrote: > As a kind fellow pointed out to me off list, the strict enforcement of > the no underscores is happening in libc, in: > > /usr/src/lib/libc/net/res_comp.c > > The same gentleman offered me a work-around in case I may want to add > underscores to the list of OK characters in hostnames. I know that this > is not FreeBSD's fault and that the RFC's are clear about what is and is > not allowed (except this[1] one?). > > The patch to the above mentioned file is attached. I tried ping after > recompiling libc w/patch + ping, and the pings went out fine. Whether or > not the patch breaks anything else, I don't know... probably not going > to use it myself... just including it for follow-up reasons... YMMV, > etc... > This is bad. Adding chaos to chaos. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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