Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 00:41:14 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libc Message-ID: <Mutt.19961128004114.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19961127001532.brianc@netrover.com>; from Brian Campbell on Nov 27, 1996 00:15:32 -0500 References: <Mutt.19961127001532.brianc@netrover.com>
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According to Brian Campbell: > Further, it appears that someone (a new RFC? what number?) decided, in > libc.so.3, that underscores, slashes and who-knows-what-else are invalid > characters in DNS. So a lot of time gets wasted (on traceroute or > netstat) resolving names that the resolver code in libc will refuse to > display. "_" has never been officially allowed in hostnames. Paul Vixie decided to enforce this in 4.9.4. There is a command you can put in named.boot to allow them. This is a named issue, not a resolver one. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #29: Sun Nov 24 16:05:46 MET 1996
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