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Date:      Tue, 07 Oct 2003 14:29:47 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: good address will not resolve in freebsd (_ in host names)
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.0.20031007142751.066bad28@209.112.4.2>
In-Reply-To: <200310071631.aa97061@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
References:  <Your message of "Tue, 07 Oct 2003 10:15:10 CDT." <00f201c38ce5$cd4ed180$d3a8a8c0@barney> <200310071631.aa97061@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>

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More and more zones are starting to use _ in their host names (for better 
or worse).  Has their been any discussion about making this change in FreeBSD ?

         ---Mike

At 11:31 AM 07/10/2003, David Malone wrote:
> > It has to be in the resolver because windows pulls it from the same
> > NS's.
>
>You could edit:
>
>         /usr/src/lib/libc/net/res_comp.c
>
>and look for the line that says:
>
>#define hyphenchar(c) ((c) == 0x2d)
>
>and replace that with:
>
>#define hyphenchar(c) ((c) == 0x2d || (c) == 0x5f)
>
>Then recompile and install libc
>
>         cd /usr/src/lib/libc && make depend && make && make install
>
>David.
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