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Re: Underscores in host names
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall () ehsco com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 12:54:08 -0400
David Conrad wrote:
1) Squid/Squid proxy from two people (although there wasn't any indication of the actual issue, presumably Squid won't be able to contact the host to cache the content?)
the resolver library barfs up an error
I suspect the rest of the jihad against heathen characters such as "_" should probably be redirected to namedroppers so I won't comment further.
Not unless namedroppers is authoritative for /etc/hosts now too. That's the whole point here--DNS may be more powerful than what the hostname syntax rules allow, but the mere existence of that capability has zero bearing on the canonocial syntax rules. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
Current thread:
- Re: Underscores in host names, (continued)
- Re: Underscores in host names bmanning (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Brad Knowles (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Brad Knowles (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Tony Finch (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Mark Andrews (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Tony Finch (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Stephane Bortzmeyer (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Valdis . Kletnieks (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names David Conrad (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names trainier (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Eric A. Hall (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Duane Wessels (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names bmanning (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Eric A. Hall (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Brad Knowles (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Michael . Dillon (May 19)