Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 14:14:15 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Underscores in domain names.. Message-ID: <199808150614.OAA28122@mail.creative.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:18:33 MST." <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808141517520.13156-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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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
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