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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Underscores in host names
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:47:09AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > 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. Perhaps I left my program in the men's room, but wasn't the point of this thread that "something has already been done to prohibit this"? IE: 2821 says that's an invalid address? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Designer Internetworking RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates Best Practices '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://bestpractices.wikicities.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
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