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Re: Underscores in host names

  • From: william(at)elan.net
  • Date: Thu May 19 00:56:29 2005 
On Wed, 18 May 2005, David A. Ulevitch wrote:


.ws has an MX record.
host -t mx ws. ==> mail.worldsite.ws

Most MUA's (unix ones tended to work, not surprisingly) complain or break
on "send" but technically it works. :)
Read 2.3.5 of RFC2821 and note that "A domain (or domain name) consists of one or more dot-separated components"

So technically its not supposed to work, but not everyone is compliant with standards...

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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
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