Underscores in host names
Laurent Frigault
lolo at pan.gandi.net
Wed May 18 17:00:13 UTC 2005
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:33:46AM -0700, David Conrad wrote:
> However, that rant was mostly irrelevant. Can you point to _ANY_
> application, operating system, or anything else that has any issues
> whatsoever with an "_" of all characters?
gethostbyaddr (and may be other functions) will return NULL under at
least FreeBSD/NetBSD for ANY PTR having the "_" character.
There must be many applications impacted.
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Laurent Frigault - NOC GANDI
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