From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 9 23:23:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E7637B71E for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:23:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA22289; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:23:38 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200006100623.XAA22289@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: inetd problems In-Reply-To: <20000610060000.26723.qmail@math.uic.edu> from "vladimir-bsd-stable@math.uic.edu" at "Jun 10, 0 06:00:00 am" To: vladimir-bsd-stable@math.uic.edu Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:23:38 -0700 (MST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, vladimir-bsd-stable@math.uic.edu wrote: > BTW, should the '_' character be considered a valid character for a hostname? > I think rfc1034 only gives recommendations, but doesn't insist on them. > It would make sense for gethostbyname() to return results for such hosts. I can't quote you references right now, but we came to the conclusion that the '_' character was invalid in host names. We had similar problems delivering reports to customer's networked printers that contained underscores in their names. We eventually got the customer to change the '_' to '-'. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message