[ale] underscored server names

[Jerald Sheets]

Yeah...  You never notice it until you get a 100% RFC compliant machine
(like a BSD box).  Free/Open/Net BSD won't let you even so much as ping,
SSH, FTP, telnet to that kind of hostname.  Gethostbyname () freaks out
on that platform.  Not only was it written to be RFC-compliant, it was
written to enforce the RFC stadard.  >shrug<

--Jerald

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Geoffrey
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 1:18 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] underscored server names


Preston Boyington wrote:
> would someone mind telling me why an "_" in a server name would cause 
> trouble?  i've not noticed it before, but with some email programs 
> (mozilla thunderbird) it is raising sand about the server name 
> (email_server).  it doesn't do this with a "-" and i was wondering if 
> i was breaking some rule/law/karma.

Broken karma for sure:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc952.html

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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