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Re: Underscores in host names
From: Laurent Frigault <lolo () pan gandi net>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 19:00:13 +0200
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:33:46AM -0700, David Conrad wrote:
However, that rant was mostly irrelevant. Can you point to _ANY_ application, operating system, or anything else that has any issues whatsoever with an "_" of all characters?
gethostbyaddr (and may be other functions) will return NULL under at least FreeBSD/NetBSD for ANY PTR having the "_" character. There must be many applications impacted. -- Laurent Frigault - NOC GANDI
Current thread:
- Re: Underscores in host names, (continued)
- 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 Eric A. Hall (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Duane Wessels (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Laurent Frigault (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Paul Vixie (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)
- Re: Underscores in host names Paul Vixie (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Eric A. Hall (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Valdis . Kletnieks (May 19)