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Re: Underscores in host names
- From: Eric A. Hall
- Date: Wed May 18 12:55:21 2005
David Conrad wrote:
> 1) Squid/Squid proxy from two people (although there wasn't any
> indication of the actual issue, presumably Squid won't be able to
> contact the host to cache the content?)
the resolver library barfs up an error
> I suspect the rest of the jihad against heathen characters such as
> "_" should probably be redirected to namedroppers so I won't comment
> further.
Not unless namedroppers is authoritative for /etc/hosts now too.
That's the whole point here--DNS may be more powerful than what the
hostname syntax rules allow, but the mere existence of that capability has
zero bearing on the canonocial syntax rules.
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Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
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