Re: Underscores in host names

[Roger Marquis <marquis () roble com>]

Laurent Frigault wrote:
> gethostbyaddr (and may be other functions) will return NULL under at
> least FreeBSD/NetBSD for ANY PTR having the "_" character.

As it should.  I wish it would also return a null for hostnames
containing sequential non-alphanumerics (--, ---, __, ___, ...).

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Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
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