Underscores in host names

Wed May 18 18:33:46 UTC 2005

> > 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?
> 
> at the time of check-names, i outlawed _ as a side effect of punting.  in
> order to strip/prevent newline characters in PTR targets, i had to be able
> to refer to an RFC (lest people come to me with many individual sob stories
> about this or that special character that either should or should not be
> stripped/prevented in gethostbyaddr().)  the only RFC i found that had any
> remote chance of getting me off this hook was #952.  ergo, _ had to die in
> order that my inbox might live.
> 
> but it was wrong, and the need for it is past, and it's time for redress.

	does this mean that i can get my .com  delegation back?
	its to support ADA-act compliant web servers.

--bill