From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 25 7:59:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B00937B401 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:59:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from marius.org (cdm-66-156-207-bcst.cox-internet.com [66.76.156.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E1D143F75 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:59:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marius@marius.org) Received: from marius.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by marius.org (8.12.8/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2PFxHD5078834; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:59:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from marius@marius.org) Received: (from marius@localhost) by marius.org (8.12.8/8.12.6/Submit) id h2PFxH90078833; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:59:17 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:59:17 -0600 From: Marius Strom To: David J Duchscher Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Resolver Issues (non valid hostname characters) Message-ID: <20030325155917.GE76682@marius.org> Mail-Followup-To: David J Duchscher , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-32.5 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FWIW, I've been having trouble with domains that in particular have '_' in the hostname. I know it violates RFC952, but lots of people are using them now, for good or bad. How about a compile-time flag to allow a "looser" adherence to the RFC? (Yeah, I know this would likely be gross, and thus I'll defer to people who are more familiar with FreeBSD internals here) On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Dave Duchscher wrote: > It seems that the use of invalid characters in hostnames is cropping > up more and more. Besides complaining to the offending site which > often doesn't work, I was wondering if these restrictions on FreeBSD > should be re-examined. At this time, it seems that many OSes are no > longer enforcing this requirement or never have. In my case, I am > running into a hostnames with an underscore character in the name. It > seems that Linux, MacOS X, Solaris and Windows all allow this hostname > to resolve but FreeBSD, as well as the other *BSD, reject it. Should > FreeBSD follow suit? > > DaveD > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- /-------------------------------------------------> Marius Strom | Always carry a short length of fibre-optic cable. Professional Geek | If you get lost, then you can drop it on the System/Network Admin | ground, wait 10 minutes, and ask the backhoe http://www.marius.org/ | operator how to get back to civilization. \-------------| Alan Frame |----------------------> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message