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Date:      Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:51:26 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        ache@nagual.pp.ru, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, delphij@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/resolv res_comp.c
Message-ID:  <863artw4wh.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20080215.233427.1598351542.imp@bsdimp.com> (M. Warner Losh's message of "Fri\, 15 Feb 2008 23\:34\:27 -0700 \(MST\)")
References:  <200802160016.m1G0GnFB046558@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080216024541.GA31498@nagual.pp.ru> <20080215.233427.1598351542.imp@bsdimp.com>

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"M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
> Plus there was a very long, very heated thread about removing _ as a
> valid name years ago.  Have conditions changed since then?  Frankly,
> I'd like to have seen a change like this discussed more widely.  There
> was much debate before, and there turned out to be good reasons for
> omitting the _.  I just can't recall them now.

There are valid reasons for allowing it.  Somebody[tm] (I'll leave it up
to you to guess who) thought it was a good idea to use _ in DNS names
used for automatic detection of web proxies and domain controllers, IIRC.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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