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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


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