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Date:      Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:29:23 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Cc:        Glenn Chisholm <glenn@ircache.net>, Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>, Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>, Michael Mannsberger <mannsber@starmedia.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: (2) hey 
Message-ID:  <199908130129.TAA07056@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Aug 1999 18:27:49 EDT." <199908122227.SAA87677@whizzo.transsys.com> 
References:  <199908122227.SAA87677@whizzo.transsys.com>  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908121608310.280-100000@abalaea.ircache.net> 

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In message <199908122227.SAA87677@whizzo.transsys.com> "Louis A. Mamakos" writes:
: It violates the "starts with alpha" "requirement" in 952 and 1101
: that you quotes, yet we use these things all the time.  

That requirement has been relaxed.  See RFC 1123.

Bottom line is that _ is an illegal character in a hostname, and
FreeBSD is behaving correctly.

Warner


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