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Re: Underscores in host names

  • From: Brad Knowles
  • Date: Thu May 19 05:56:29 2005 
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.

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