On Thu, 19 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 19 May 2005 08:04:31 PDT, Roger Marquis said:Laurent Frigault wrote: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 (--, ---, __, ___, ...).
Don't like RFC3490 and its xn-- hostnames? ;)
Most definitely not, and if this were 1985 I'd be {rf}commenting on the inadvisability of such hostnames, and those beginning or ending with "-", TLD names shorter than 2 or longer than 4 characters, spaces in hostnames, [^a-z0-9\\-\\.], and other such marginally useful but infinitely problematic features.
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