[80946] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Underscores in host names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu May 19 11:48:57 2005
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:45:31 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <p06200724beb210e75418@[10.0.1.2]>; from Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> on Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:47:09AM +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:47:09AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> 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.
Perhaps I left my program in the men's room, but wasn't the point of
this thread that "something has already been done to prohibit this"?
IE: 2821 says that's an invalid address?
Cheers,
-- jra
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