On 22 Apr 1998, Dean Gaudet wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR general/2117; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "David J. MacKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: general/2117: The CIDR syntax support for allow and deny finds
> the '/' in comments.
> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:07:58 -0700 (PDT)
>
> On 22 Apr 1998, David J. MacKenzie wrote:
>
> > int ap_hostname_syntax(char *s)
> > {
> > for (; *s; s++) {
> > /* Allow : for IPv6. */
> > if (!isalnum(*s) && strchr("_-.:", *s) == NULL)
> > return 0;
> > }
> > return 1;
> > }
>
> _ isn't valid though... I suppose we could do something like bind does
> with it; complain but allow it.
It is valid in a hostname, no?
Just not a Internet domain name. These things aren't necessarily just
domain names.
BIND actually has a bunch of different behaviours. Recent resolvers
refuse to look such names up at all. But Apache isn't the place for that.
