From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 25 12: 7:40 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 5B80737B404 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:07:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from tamu-relay.tamu.edu (smtp-relay.tamu.edu [165.91.143.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 389A843F85 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:07:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daved@nostrum.com) Received: from nostrum.com (vpn-0002.tamulink.tamu.edu [165.91.47.2]) by tamu-relay.tamu.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2PK7Q28080919; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:07:31 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:07:24 -0600 Subject: Re: Resolver Issues (non valid hostname characters) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: stable@freebsd.org To: Terry Lambert From: David J Duchscher In-Reply-To: <3E803770.1DD7FD0@mindspring.com> Message-Id: <64BD550E-5EFD-11D7-8571-0003930B3DA4@nostrum.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-16.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_APPLEMAIL 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 On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 05:03 AM, Terry Lambert wrote: > It's probably not very useful to talk about doing this until > local caching-only name servers on border servers are capable > of handling the 8-bit, as well. For the RFC's that FreeBSD > currently complies with, it's right to be strict about this. I think this is the wrong approach to take with this problem. Linux, Windows, and Solaris do not enforce this restriction. If RFC 952 is being thrown out the window, then why should FreeBSD continue to enforce this restriction? At the moment, the problems I am seeing have little to do with 8-bit data but characters outside of the what RFC 952 allows. DaveD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message