Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:34:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance <malte.lance@gmx.net> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Underscores in domain names.. Message-ID: <13781.29108.920264.419745@neuron.webmore.de> In-Reply-To: <199808150614.OAA28122@mail.creative.net.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808141517520.13156-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <199808150614.OAA28122@mail.creative.net.au>
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Adrian Chadd writes: > 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..) Someone on questions had a .sig on that fact ... something like "... Linux ... the MicroSoft-thing of the Unix-world ... ". Don't recall exactly anymore ... too much bit-leaks in my brain. Malte. > > > Adrian > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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