[80909] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Underscores in host names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Wed May 18 12:54:39 2005
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 12:54:08 -0400
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
To: David Conrad <david.conrad@nominum.com>
Cc: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <38EF6673-2BE1-4663-88D9-50D13811E75C@nominum.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
David Conrad wrote:
> 1) Squid/Squid proxy from two people (although there wasn't any
> indication of the actual issue, presumably Squid won't be able to
> contact the host to cache the content?)
the resolver library barfs up an error
> I suspect the rest of the jihad against heathen characters such as
> "_" should probably be redirected to namedroppers so I won't comment
> further.
Not unless namedroppers is authoritative for /etc/hosts now too.
That's the whole point here--DNS may be more powerful than what the
hostname syntax rules allow, but the mere existence of that capability has
zero bearing on the canonocial syntax rules.
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Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
