[80949] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Underscores in host names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu May 19 11:59:02 2005
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 15:55:39 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050519114530.A11656@cgi.jachomes.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:45:31AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>
> 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?
er... RFC 2821 was published -after- this was an established
practice.
--bill
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> --
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