Cesar Matamoros II wrote: > Thanks for the input. I cannot change the site name now, but it is > something I will have to think about.
No problem. Its not your fault... quite a few people seem to be setting up sites with underscores but the domain name registrars are at fault for allowing it in the first place. I guess it will eventually become a "de- facto" standard. BTW I was a little unclear when saying underscores are technically not allowed. They're allowed in a URL but not in a hostname (which is part of a URL). Here is some extra info from the Squid faq (Squid is a popular web proxy/cache package: www.squid-cache.org): --- 11.8 DNS lookups for domain names with underscores (_) always fail. The standards for naming hosts ( RFC 952, RFC 1101) do not allow underscores in domain names: A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus sign (-), and period (.). The resolver library that ships with recent versions of BIND enforces this restriction, returning an error for any host with underscore in the hostname. The best solution is to complain to the hostmaster of the offending site, and ask them to rename their host. See also the comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains FAQ. Some people have noticed that RFC 1033 implies that underscores are allowed. However, this is an informational RFC with a poorly chosen example, and not a standard by any means. --- Squid can be set up to allow underscores but this is not enabled by default. I changed my setup but my upstream ISP hasn't changed theirs despite me asking them. Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
