In message <199908122308.taa88...@whizzo.transsys.com> "Louis A. Mamakos" writes: : The DNS can store names where the values used for each octet of a : label in a DNS name can have any value at all between 0 and 255, : including " ", ".", and other rude things. The general purpose : mechansim can be (ab)sed for all sorts of purposes not originally : envisioned (like Hesiod - you want to exclude "_" from user names?)
This is true. However, for hostnames, such uses are illegal. That's what we're talking about here. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
