Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 13:00:02 -0800 (PST) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/2638: gethostbyname does not work with hosts with underscores. Message-ID: <199702022100.NAA13220@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2638; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: faulkner@utgard.hos.net Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2638: gethostbyname does not work with hosts with underscores. Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 21:47:48 +0100 As Boyd Faulkner wrote: > gethostbyname does not work with hostnames that contain an underscore. This is intentions and has been discussed many times before. Bug the owner of that host to have its name fixed. Underscores are invalid characters in hostnames. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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