On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 09:16 -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote: > ==> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:05:07 -0200, Fabio Olive Leite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > Fabio> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 12:56:31PM +0900, Ian Kent wrote: > Fabio> > > Fabio> > Not valid at all. > Fabio> > And they are tolerated because the admin explicitly configures DNS to > Fabio> > violate the RFC. > > Fabio> The sad thing is that mount(1) does no such validation, and allows one > Fabio> to mount an NFS export on a hostname containing underscores just fine. > Fabio> So we can end up in a situation where automount does not allow the > Fabio> user to configure a working NFS mount she has. > > Yes, and when coupled with the fact that some other vendors' products > allow this sort of thing by default, I think we may have to support > it. I'm a big fan of sticking to the RFC's, but in this case, I think > we should make an exception.
Ya .. I reality I don't feel as strongly as I made out. I did want to see if there was anyone else that did have an opinion though. I'll merge the patch unless anyone else feels strongly against it. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
