On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Michael Mannsberger wrote:
> ping www.atayatirim.com.tr works under Sun but not in FreeBSD - why?
> FreeBSD doesn't like "_" in a URL!!!!!!!!
Uhm, that's a hostname, but yes, FreeBSD doesn't like it. Windows is
okay with it, however.
http://www.crynwr.com/crynwr/rfc1035/rfc1035.html#2.3.1.
However explains why this hostname is not allowed. FreeBSD is not violating
RFC.
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hawk% ping wam_notes.internal.chc-chimes.com
ping: cannot resolve wam_notes.internal.chc-chimes.com: Unknown server error
hawk% dig wam_notes.internal.chc-chimes.com |grep notes
; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> wam_notes.internal.chc-chimes.com
;; wam_notes.internal.chc-chimes.com, type = A, class = IN
wam_notes.internal.chc-chimes.com. 1D IN CNAME notes.internal.chc-chimes.com.
notes.internal.chc-chimes.com. 1D IN A 172.16.81.245
It should be noted that the dns server that my workstation queried is running
FreeBSD and has no trouble _serving_ hostnames with an underscore.
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