On Mar 3, 2004, at 12:56 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
Does the ping utility do some sort of name checking when one
wants to ping a particular host by name?
Ping uses gethostbyname2() to resolve the target hostname.
A person with an account on a FreeBSD system demonstrated to
me
Thank you very much. I run our domain name servers and this
fits what I suspected was going on. bind Version 9 stopped checking
names for illegal characters and I usually try to discourage people
from using them in names, but I thought I had better check to make
sure there wasn't
