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. -- - bill fumerola - [email protected] - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - [email protected] - [email protected] - 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
