From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 12 14:14:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A18F1589B; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 14:14:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A18F51C09; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 16:15:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E5363820; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 16:15:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 16:15:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola 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 On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Michael Mannsberger wrote: > ping www.atayatirim.com.tr works under Sun but not in FreeBSD - why? > FreeBSD doesn't like "_" in a URL!!!!!!!! Uhm, that's a hostname, but yes, FreeBSD doesn't like it. Windows is okay with it, however. http://www.crynwr.com/crynwr/rfc1035/rfc1035.html#2.3.1. However explains why this hostname is not allowed. FreeBSD is not violating RFC. -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - hawk% ping wam_notes.internal.chc-chimes.com ping: cannot resolve wam_notes.internal.chc-chimes.com: Unknown server error hawk% dig wam_notes.internal.chc-chimes.com |grep notes ; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> wam_notes.internal.chc-chimes.com ;; wam_notes.internal.chc-chimes.com, type = A, class = IN wam_notes.internal.chc-chimes.com. 1D IN CNAME notes.internal.chc-chimes.com. notes.internal.chc-chimes.com. 1D IN A 172.16.81.245 It should be noted that the dns server that my workstation queried is running FreeBSD and has no trouble _serving_ hostnames with an underscore. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message