North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Underscores in host names
> > 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
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