Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:45:54 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Maxim M. Kazachek" <stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru> To: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resolver Issues (non valid hostname characters) Message-ID: <20030326123745.I54180@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20030325233425.43baf76a.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> References: <200303260353.h2Q3rXpE028440@drugs.dv.isc.org> <A4C37B8C-5F46-11D7-9839-0003930B3DA4@nostrum.com> <20030325233425.43baf76a.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca>
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Chris Pressey wrote: >On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:51:44 -0600 >David J Duchscher <daved@nostrum.com> wrote: > >> I can't talk to some hosts on the internet because FreeBSD will not >> resolve the host name which over 99% of the host on the Internet will. >> I guess that just doesn't matter. >> >> DaveD > >I don't get it. > >If I run a non-standard web server, I wouldn't expect to be able to >serve web pages to standard user agents. > >If I use a non-standard host name, why should I expect to be able to >be reached by standard resolvers? > >i.e. You can't talk to some hosts because their host name is broken. >The problem is on *their* end, just as if they were running a >gratuitously incompatible http server. How is this FreeBSD's fault? > >(I must admit I'm a little biased... I can't bring myself to seriously >believe that a host with an underscore in its name could possibly have >anything to offer that I'd be interested in...) > Well, I had a lot of practice with Micro$oft Windows' DNS implementation and I've ran flawlessly with hostnames (and, of course, NetBIOS names) with underscores... I may say it looks "better" than names without it or with minus sign... It's MHO, of course... Many of OSes permit underscore in host names... By the way, why hostname with underscores can be resolved when it in /etc/hosts, but it can't be resolved when it in Microsoft's DDNS implementation... Microsoft doesn't complain about it both on server and client side... To track standard we must "filter" those hosts in ANY case, I think... We don't... Then we must do something with this situation, I think... Sincerely, Maxim M. Kazachek mailto:stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru mailto:stranger@fpm.ami.nstu.ru
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