Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:41:04 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Allow underscores in DNS names Message-ID: <20030329204104.GF74971@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpu1dm2k2h.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <xzpu1dm2k2h.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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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
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