[80896] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Underscores in host names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Wed May 18 03:51:20 2005
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 09:50:51 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050518041114.GA25562@hesketh.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:11:14AM -0400,
Steven Champeon <schampeo@hesketh.com> wrote
a message of 92 lines which said:
> So, these are *all* non-compliant?
Yes, and you can easily check that the FreeBSD resolver, for instance,
cannot retrieve them (the GNU libc resolver on Linux can).
notux:~ % uname
FreeBSD
notux:~ % ping Laubervilliers-151_12-16-191.w82-127.abo.wanadoo.fr
ping: cannot resolve Laubervilliers-151_12-16-191.w82-127.abo.wanadoo.fr: Unknown server error
myriam:~ % uname
Linux
myriam:~ % ping Laubervilliers-151_12-16-191.w82-127.abo.wanadoo.fr
PING Laubervilliers-151_12-16-191.w82-127.abo.wanadoo.fr (82.127.31.191) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from Laubervilliers-151_12-16-191.w82-127.abo.wanadoo.fr
(82.127.31.191): icmp_seq=1 ttl=118 time=49.0 ms
