[80942] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Underscores in host names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu May 19 11:22:50 2005
To: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
Cc: nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 May 2005 08:04:31 PDT."
<20050519080154.I2239@roble.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:22:18 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 19 May 2005 08:04:31 PDT, Roger Marquis said:
>
> 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 (--, ---, __, ___, ...).
Don't like RFC3490 and its xn-- hostnames? ;)
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