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Re: Underscores in host names
From: bmanning () vacation karoshi com
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 15:55:39 +0000
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:45:31AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
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?
er... RFC 2821 was published -after- this was an established practice. --bill
Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra () baylink com Designer Internetworking RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates Best Practices '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://bestpractices.wikicities.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
Current thread:
- Re: Underscores in host names, (continued)
- Re: Underscores in host names Stephane Bortzmeyer (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names David Conrad (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Tony Finch (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Mark Andrews (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names william(at)elan.net (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names David A. Ulevitch (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names william(at)elan.net (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Mark Andrews (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Brad Knowles (May 19)
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- Re: Underscores in host names Jay R. Ashworth (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names bmanning (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Brad Knowles (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Tony Finch (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Brad Knowles (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Tony Finch (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Tony Finch (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Stephane Bortzmeyer (May 18)