Subject: Re: host not found? To: None <> From: Andreas
Gustafsson <> List: current-users Date: 04/15/2003 14:41:18
Chuck Yerkes writes: > Quoting Peter Seebach ( > > So, Mozilla
and a couple of other programs are consistently failing to look
> > up any name with _'s in it.  The most obvious (and topical)
example would > > be  "nslookup" finds it; "ping" doesn't. > You
mean hosts that violate the DNS RFCS?  They don't violate any
DNS RFCs.  If they violate anything, it's RFC952, the "DOD
Internet Host Table Specification", which predates the DNS.  >
In 95 or so, apple came out with (OS) system 7 (AFAIR). > It's
DNS implementation strictly complies with the RFCs. > It didn't
support _ in hostnames.  That implementation is not compliant.
Any DNS implementation which does not support all 256 possible
octet values in DNS names (whether they are used as "hostnames"
or for other purposes) is broken; see RFC2181 section 11.  >
This, of course, caused the Apples to not be able to get > to
various Notes servers named