Thomas Charron wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Ben Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> That would generally be considered non-compliant with the >> requirements for Internet hosts, even though DNS can handle it.
> Interesting. My nameserver at home ends up telling me to bugger > off. :-D Not sure which one, either our DNS forwarder, or the TDS > nameservers. Will have to take a look. Toying with a piece of trivia who's origin I no longer recall, I seem to recall that some DNS servers will treat an underscore as a dash. In an effort to test this theory, I tried doing a host lookup both ways and indeed the results were identical: $ host thingiverse_beta.s3.amazonaws.com thingiverse_beta.s3.amazonaws.com is an alias for s3-directional-w.amazonaws.com. s3-directional-w.amazonaws.com is an alias for s3-1-w.amazonaws.com. s3-1-w.amazonaws.com has address 72.21.202.194 $ host thingiverse-beta.s3.amazonaws.com thingiverse-beta.s3.amazonaws.com is an alias for s3-directional-w.amazonaws.com. s3-directional-w.amazonaws.com is an alias for s3-1-w.amazonaws.com. s3-1-w.amazonaws.com has address 72.21.202.194 Interesting. A dig resulted in similar answers. I don't know if Amazon's web server would agree, but their DNS servers seem to think they are the same. Brian -- --------------------------------------------------------------- | br...@datasquire.net Proprietor: http://www.JustWorksNH.com | | Computers and Web Sites that JUST WORK | | Work: +1 (603) 484-1461 Home: +1 (603) 484-1469 | --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
