Dwivedi Ajay kumar rearranged electrons thusly:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Jiju Thomas Mathew wrote:
> > www.fe_es.vsplash.com is refused by squid and says
> > there is illegal double escape or so in the hostname.
> The hostname is invalid becauase a valid internet hostnane can
> only have alphabets(cast insensitive), digits and the hyphen (-) in
> them. I think there is some rfc regarding the host naming convention but I
> forgot which one.
RFC 2068 - dealing with HTTP/1.1, for one ....
Try this quote from "DNS tips and tricks" - and these are from people like
Vixie, Mockapetris etc ...
http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/trick.html
Legal characters in hostnames
Domain names can contain almost any characters. However, host names and mail domain
names
have restrictions which only allow the use of characters `a-z', `A-Z', `0-9', and
`-'
(dash or minus sign). The `/' and `_' (divide or slash and underscore) characters
are not
legal. Note that hostnames include the owners of A and MX records and .in-addr.arpa
PTR
records, and the data fields of MX and .in-addr.arpa PTR records: in other words,
almost
all currently used DNS entries! The current releases of the BIND name server
software
enforce these restrictions. 20-Nov-1997, 10-Apr-1996
> (So squid is just conforming to the standard, nothing else )
Yeah. And vsplash's got a problem, I see ...
--suresh
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