"Michael ODonnell" <michael.odonn...@comcast.net> writes: > > > (I detest FUD, even if it's aimed at a target I also dislike.) > > (sigh) You're right. I could swear that just before I posted my comment I > had read (parts of) a rant (with examples) about how Microsoft disregards > the DNS hostname rules on the Internet, but maybe I was hallucinating - I > now can't find anything like that anywhere on the WWW. Given Microsoft's > history I've gotten into the habit of assuming any account of their > misbehavior to be true but, of course, that isn't license to repeat crap.
I remember that one of the changelog-entries for ISC dhcpd was: - Don't trust hostnames provided by client - Win95 allows *spaces* in client-supplied hostnames! Maybe that was it? -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/