Underscores in host names

Thu May 19 15:55:39 UTC 2005

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

> 
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> -- jra
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