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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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