From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 13 9: 1:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C8F014FA1 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:01:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA89903; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:01:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37B4415B.110AE3BC@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:01:31 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0811 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (3) hey References: <25411.934497347@localhost> <37B39C47.D6E6D39@ispro.net.tr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > Alright, here are my questions. I have collected more than one email > here. > 1st of I all it is hard to tell my customers that they are not able to > connect to that site because this is not a legal host name. Since all > other ISPs are fine with it. I did not understand why other Unix OSes > like > Solaris or OSF1 support it. I also believe that there could be a more > meaningful > error message else than the one I got "Unknown server error". If you don't like how freebsd handles this, you are free to change its behavior. You have the source code, make all the changes to the resolver library you want to. In fact, once you've made the changes, please submit them using send-pr since although I definitely agree that it's an invalid hostname for the global internet I disagree with our resolver not being able to handle it. Labels with an underscore in them are perfectly valid for intranets, and the new SRV RR uses underscores. What you need to stop doing is complaining about it. You've been told why it is how it is, you have the means to fix it yourself, so fix it or don't, that's up to you. But further complaining doesn't do anyone any good. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message