Hi, >>>>> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:58:13 +0100 >>>>> Pawel Worach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
pawel> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Plus there was a very long, very heated thread about removing _ as a >> valid name years ago. Have conditions changed since then? Frankly, >> I'd like to have seen a change like this discussed more widely. There >> was much debate before, and there turned out to be good reasons for >> omitting the _. I just can't recall them now. > > There are valid reasons for allowing it. Somebody[tm] (I'll leave it up > to you to guess who) thought it was a good idea to use _ in DNS names > used for automatic detection of web proxies and domain controllers, IIRC. > pawel> BIND allows it in SRV records but not in A records. Not all DNS servers are BIND. Though use of `_' in hostname violates RFC, some implementations of DNS server allow it, and it is used actually. Sincerely, -- Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],jp.}FreeBSD.org http://www.imasy.org/~ume/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
