Re: Bug#575209 closed by Holger Levsen (Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent])

2010-03-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 25.03.2010 14:15, schrieb Ben Hutchings: So if Windows accepts it then it must be OK? I don't think we have to follow that rule. Otherwise you should be demanding support for NMB and WINS in glibc. Mac OS X, too, BTW. But that's not what I wanted to say. I wanted to say that I consider it

Re: Bug#575209 closed by Holger Levsen (Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent])

2010-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:15:06PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > - Sites with domain names like do already exist! > > Do you think they should be accessible by any other proprietary > > operating system, but not Debian? Not really! > So if Windows accepts it then it must be OK? I don't think

Re: Bug#575209 closed by Holger Levsen (Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent])

2010-03-25 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 13:15, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 11:21 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > - The advice in the cited RFC is already ignored. Domain names that > > start with a digit, e.g. 12345.foo.bar, can be resolved, whereas the > > RFC tells us "They [labels] must star

Re: Bug#575209: closed by Holger Levsen (Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent])

2010-03-25 Thread Bjørn Mork
Fabian Greffrath writes: > - Sites with domain names like do already exist! > Do you think they should be accessible by any other proprietary > operating system, but not Debian? Not really! Anyone can enter bogus data in the DNS. Neither the existence of such data nor the failure to detect it

Re: Bug#575209 closed by Holger Levsen (Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent])

2010-03-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 11:21 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > reopen 575209 > reassign 575209 eglibc > found 575209 2.10.2-6 > found 575209 2.11-0exp6 > severity 575209 important > retitle 575209 Please resolv domain names with hyphens as border chars > tags 575209 + patch > thanks > > Hi Holger et

Re: Bug#575209 closed by Holger Levsen (Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent])

2010-03-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
reopen 575209 reassign 575209 eglibc found 575209 2.10.2-6 found 575209 2.11-0exp6 severity 575209 important retitle 575209 Please resolv domain names with hyphens as border chars tags 575209 + patch thanks Hi Holger et al (please drop -devel out of the list of CCs if you feel this is getting of

Processed: Re: Bug#575209 closed by Holger Levsen (Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent])

2010-03-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reopen 575209 Bug #575209 {Done: Holger Levsen } [general] general: Error resolving hostname > reassign 575209 eglibc Bug #575209 [general] general: Error resolving hostname Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'eglibc'. > found 575209 2.10.2

Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent]

2010-03-24 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 10:50, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > [Resent, because reportbug somehow ate my line breaks, sorry!] > > Dear all, > > I've found something that is most propbably a bug in Linux's resolv > system, when trying to open a specific page with Epiphany (but any > other browser will fai

Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent]

2010-03-24 Thread Fabian Greffrath
[Resent, because reportbug somehow ate my line breaks, sorry!] Dear all, I've found something that is most propbably a bug in Linux's resolv system, when trying to open a specific page with Epiphany (but any other browser will fail as well, please try out yourself). To reproduce, please visi