I think this is not a bug related with any browser nor the operating system. AFAIK using a "-" before the dot is not allowed by at least RFC 1035 (Domain names - implementation and specification), which says:
"The labels must follow the rules for ARPANET host names. They must start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior characters only letters, digits, and hyphen. There are also some restrictions on the length. Labels must be 63 characters or less." It´s clear to me that "-whatever-.dot.com" is an illegal host name and then it must not be resolved. The fact is that any application that relies its name resolving in C´s "gethostbyname" calls (on Linux: ping, dig, nslookup, and the like...) will fail with illegal host names, which IMHO is the right behaviour. Please someone let me know if I am wrong. Anyway, it´s not a firefox issue :) Greetings from Spain -- unable to acces to a specific url with any navigator. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121467 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
