[80916] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Underscores in host names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Wed May 18 14:34:16 2005
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 18:33:46 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3acmsieh9.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> > 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?
>=20
> at the time of check-names, i outlawed _ as a side effect of punting. in
> order to strip/prevent newline characters in PTR targets, i had to be able
> to refer to an RFC (lest people come to me with many individual sob stori=
es
> about this or that special character that either should or should not be
> stripped/prevented in gethostbyaddr().) the only RFC i found that had any
> remote chance of getting me off this hook was #952. ergo, _ had to die in
> order that my inbox might live.
>=20
> but it was wrong, and the need for it is past, and it's time for redress.
does this mean that i can get my =02=02=02.com delegation back?
its to support ADA-act compliant web servers.
--bill
