North American Network Operators Group
Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

Re: Underscores in host names

  • From: Roger Marquis
  • Date: Thu May 19 11:08:28 2005 
Laurent Frigault wrote:

gethostbyaddr (and may be other functions) will return NULL under at
least FreeBSD/NetBSD for ANY PTR having the "_" character.

As it should.  I wish it would also return a null for hostnames
containing sequential non-alphanumerics (--, ---, __, ___, ...).

--
Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/