[80911] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Underscores in host names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurent Frigault)
Wed May 18 13:03:07 2005
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 19:00:13 +0200
From: Laurent Frigault <lolo@pan.gandi.net>
To: David Conrad <david.conrad@nominum.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6AF45CC2-BB72-473E-8285-3AD5BD45C1A7@nominum.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:33:46AM -0700, David Conrad wrote:
> However, that rant was mostly irrelevant. Can you point to _ANY_
> application, operating system, or anything else that has any issues
> whatsoever with an "_" of all characters?
gethostbyaddr (and may be other functions) will return NULL under at
least FreeBSD/NetBSD for ANY PTR having the "_" character.
There must be many applications impacted.
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Laurent Frigault - NOC GANDI