I haven't caught all messages in this thread but thought you would like to know:
Most implementations of DNS will accept underscores in hostnames, however a few will refuse them, example MS WIndows DNS will not allow you to enter a DNS name with an underscore but it will process them. Also the hostmane is part of the domain name, its acutally the fqdn (fully qualified domain name) and this is used for DNS its used as a hostname and only a hostname only for NETBEUI. James Butler ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 4:57 PM Subject: Re: Tim Wright about? > > Wow. I don't check my email for *2* days and I'm a major thread. Cool. > > On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Mike Beattie wrote: > > > Look, I dont particularly care if I see Tim's mail or not. I just thought > > I'd bring it to his attention so that he knows there will be systems out > > there that will not accept his mail. > > Then perhaps emailing me might have been the best bet. You did have my > email address after all (because there were 12 or so email messages from > me in your box, as you said). > > No, I did not choose the hostname for my laptop. The COSC programmers > choose it for me. I'll ask them to change it, but doubt they consider it a > real prority. > > Yes my machine does do stuff with mail. I run exim to send queued messages > from Pine, and to deliver local messages that I get using fetchmail. Does > that make me a mailhost? I have no idea. > > Tim Wright > > Assistant Lecturer > Department of Computer Science > University of Canterbury > > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13 >
