Re: Underscores in host names

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>]

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:47:09AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 3:39 PM +1000 2005-05-19, Mark Andrews wrote:
> >     Any tld that thinks this will ever work reliably need their
> >     heads read.  There was a good reason all the unqualified
> >     hosts got moved into .ARPA.  Single label hosts do not work
> >     well on a global scale.
>
>       No, they don't, but .ws and .gw are not going to be the only ones 
> doing this kind of thing, and this problem won't go away unless 
> something is done to expressly prohibit this kind of behaviour.

Perhaps I left my program in the men's room, but wasn't the point of
this thread that "something has already been done to prohibit this"?
IE: 2821 says that's an invalid address?  

Cheers,
-- jra
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