Steve McKinty writes: > RFC1123 expanded RFC952 to permit hostnames to begin with a numeric digit, > but it seems that not all Solaris components accepted this, at least until > recently. See bug 6442422, for example.
I don't think that one "counts." RFC 1123 (published in 1989) was already pretty well established when libmapid was invented. That's just a simple bug. Otherwise, companies such as "3com.com" would be highly inconvenienced. ;-} > Can anyone tell me if there was a specific Solaris version in which RFC1123 > name compatibility was formally added, or has it just crept in over time with > bugfixes when problems occurred? Unfortunately, the software base is littered with parsers that believe they know something about IP addresses. Those that make mistakes run into trouble. And people inventing new parsers sometimes make new mistakes as well. Some of these bugs are ancient and some are either hard to solve or just never will be solved -- for example, CR 1209402. But I think that at least some of the 1123 support started with SunOS 4.1, so I suspect the real question is: if you could find such a version, what would you do differently? -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
