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Date:      Thu, 28 Nov 1996 00:41:14 +0100
From:      roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libc
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19961128004114.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19961127001532.brianc@netrover.com>; from Brian Campbell on Nov 27, 1996 00:15:32 -0500
References:  <Mutt.19961127001532.brianc@netrover.com>

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According to Brian Campbell:
> Further, it appears that someone (a new RFC?  what number?) decided, in
> libc.so.3, that underscores, slashes and who-knows-what-else are invalid
> characters in DNS.  So a lot of time gets wasted (on traceroute or
> netstat) resolving names that the resolver code in libc will refuse to
> display.

"_" has never been officially allowed in hostnames. Paul Vixie decided to
enforce this in 4.9.4. There is a command you can put in named.boot to
allow them.

This is a named issue, not a resolver one.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
  FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #29: Sun Nov 24 16:05:46 MET 1996



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