From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 14 23:15:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA24609 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 23:15:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.creative.net.au (mail.creative.net.au [203.56.168.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA24599 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 23:15:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@mail.creative.net.au) Received: from mail.creative.net.au (localhost.creative.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by mail.creative.net.au (8.8.8/8.7) with ESMTP id OAA28122; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 14:14:15 +0800 (WST) Message-Id: <199808150614.OAA28122@mail.creative.net.au> To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Underscores in domain names.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:18:33 MST." Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 14:14:15 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White writes: > >On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> >> Any idea on how to make FreeBSD's resolver allow underscores in domain names >? >> It seems to want to reject them as per the RFC, but there are a lot of sites >> out there a proxy server SHOULD see that use them.. > >Well, they all violate RFC and no Macintosh can access them, so it's their >own dumb fault whether they work or not. > >I would call it 'behavior is undefined'. I know this Doug :) The trouble is, when you're doing contract work for an ISP who has had untold numbers of emails requesting why they can't get to a certain website, and all the ISPs in Perth can, then its more a commercial decision. (All the other ISPs in Perth run Linux btw..) Adrian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message