At 8:04 -0700 5/19/05, Roger Marquis wrote:
Laurent Frigault wrote:gethostbyaddr (and may be other functions) will return NULL under at least FreeBSD/NetBSD for ANY PTR having the "_" character.
As it should. I wish it would also return a null for hostnames containing sequential non-alphanumerics (--, ---, __, ___, ...).
If null were returned for all "host names" containing "--" then IDN names wouldn't "work." (See RFC 3490, section 5.)
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