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Re: Underscores in host names

  • From: Laurent Frigault
  • Date: Wed May 18 13:04:38 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