Re: Underscores in host names

19 May 2005

      At 8:04 -0700 5/19/05, Roger Marquis wrote:
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Laurent Frigault wrote:
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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 (--, ---, __, ___, ...).
If null were returned for all "host names" containing "--" then IDN 
names wouldn't "work."  (See RFC 3490, section 5.)
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Edward Lewis                                                +1-571-434-5468
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