[10232] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Howard)
Wed Jun 25 16:32:44 1997
From: Phil Howard <phil@charon.milepost.com>
To: web@typo.org (Wayne Bouchard)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 15:16:07 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199706251531.IAA29515@typo.org> from "Wayne Bouchard" at Jun 25, 97 08:31:06 am
Wayne Bouchard wrote...
> > I was wondering if Sprint had any intention to fix thier hostnames on
> > thier routers. Ever since upgrading the recent versions of Os's, the name
> > resolveres no longer resolve names with '/'s in them. Ie:
...
> I can sympathize with Sprint's delay since my network has the same
> problem. On OSen which included this newer version of BIND for which I
> had source, I had to kinda "break" it to get name resolution until
> such time as people decide on a new naming schema.
I cannot sympathize with Sprint's delay. It has all along been documented
what the valid characters were. Just get all the managers that want to have
a say in what the new scheme will be, and lock them into a hotel room with
food service, allowing them to leave only once they have have a concensus or
relinquish their say in the matter.
They can just substitute / for - in the mean time.
And then, Sprint isn't the only culprit. Take a look at CRL.
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