[80933] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Underscores in host names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Thu May 19 05:55:28 2005
In-Reply-To: <200505190539.j4J5dTGi062505@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:47:09 +0200
To: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>
From: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 3:39 PM +1000 2005-05-19, Mark Andrews wrote:
> Any tld that thinks this will ever work reliably need their
> heads read. There was a good reason all the unqualified
> hosts got moved into .ARPA. Single label hosts do not work
> well on a global scale.
No, they don't, but .ws and .gw are not going to be the only ones
doing this kind of thing, and this problem won't go away unless
something is done to expressly prohibit this kind of behaviour.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
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