On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:03:52PM -0700, Jon Simola wrote:
> On 5/17/07, Peter Hessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Its not just starting with a dash, I also cannot open ones that end the
> >host section with a dash (ke-.deviantart.com)
> >
> >On 2007 May 17 (Thu) at 10:46:01 -0700 (-0700), Brian wrote:
> >:I am trying to open up this url with firefox on openbsd -current, but
> >there is
> >:a problem with accessing the site. Is there a problem with doing the
> >lookups
> >:with url's that start with dashes:
> >:
> >:http://-amaya-.deviantart.com/
>
> RFC962 (and several other places) say that:
> No blank or space characters are permitted as part of a
> name. No distinction is made between upper and lower case. The first
> character must be an alpha character. The last character must not be
> a minus sign or period.
FWIW, it's Firefox, not anything deeper:
$ host -- -amaya-.deviantart.com
-amaya-.deviantart.com has address 69.28.181.43
-amaya-.deviantart.com mail is handled by 0 a.mx.deviantart.com.
$ ping -- -amaya-.deviantart.com
PING -amaya-.deviantart.com (69.28.181.43): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 69.28.181.43: icmp_seq=0 ttl=48 time=172.842 ms
64 bytes from 69.28.181.43: icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=162.626 ms
64 bytes from 69.28.181.43: icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=163.964 ms
--- -amaya-.deviantart.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 25.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 162.626/166.477/172.842/4.545 ms
So, you might want to give that artist a warning and/or use a different
browser for visiting this site. Links+, from ports, works.
Joachim
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