Underscores in host names

Thu May 19 15:22:18 UTC 2005

On Thu, 19 May 2005 08:04:31 PDT, Roger Marquis said:
> 
> Laurent Frigault wrote:
> > gethostbyaddr (and may be other functions) will return NULL under at
> > least FreeBSD/NetBSD for ANY PTR having the "_" character.
> 
> As it should.  I wish it would also return a null for hostnames
> containing sequential non-alphanumerics (--, ---, __, ___, ...).

Don't like RFC3490 and its xn-- hostnames? ;)
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