[80941] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Underscores in host names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger Marquis)
Thu May 19 11:07:03 2005
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 08:04:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
To: nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050519105730.82AF9912B4@trapdoor.merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Laurent Frigault wrote:
> gethostbyaddr (and may be other functions) will return NULL under at
> least FreeBSD/NetBSD for ANY PTR having the "_" character.
As it should. I wish it would also return a null for hostnames
containing sequential non-alphanumerics (--, ---, __, ___, ...).
--
Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/
