From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 12 14:10:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from medulla.hippocampus.net (medulla.hippocampus.net [204.138.241.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03597158DD; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 14:09:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@netstor.com) Received: from localhost (marc@localhost) by medulla.hippocampus.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA06064; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:16:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:16:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Nicholas X-Sender: marc@medulla.hippocampus.net To: Michael Mannsberger Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hey In-Reply-To: <37B31C67.FF7ACC92@starmedia.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That's because the resolver on the Sun box is archaic, whereas FreeBSD has an up-to-date (and legal) resolver. Can't remember which RFC defined the '_' as being illegal off-hand...but all modern resolvers will react the same. That site admin must be running an old implementation of BIND (or possibly NT!). -marc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000 fax: 416.979.8223 cell: 416.346.9255 On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Michael Mannsberger wrote: > a problem somebody had >>>>>> > > ping www.atayatirim.com.tr works under Sun but not in FreeBSD - why? > FreeBSD doesn't like "_" in a URL!!!!!!!! > > > bash-2.02$ ping www.atayatirim.com.tr > ping: cannot resolve www.atayatirim.com.tr: Unknown server error > > > bash-2.02$ nslookup www.atayatirim.com.tr > Server: ns3.starmedia.com > Address: 209.67.42.5 > > Non-authoritative answer: > Name: ata_www_prm.atayatirim.com.tr > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > Address: 195.174.236.9 > Aliases: www.atayatirim.com.tr > > -mike > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message