good address will not resolve in freebsd

David Malone dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie
Tue Oct 7 08:10:15 PDT 2003


On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:51:37AM -0500, Aaron Sloan wrote:
> Good day folks,
> 
> Got a question here. I'm running 4.8stable and I cannot get this address
> to resolve in freebsd.
> 
> http://das_runt.shackspace.com/techtv-blooper.wmv

There's an underscore in the hostname, which isn't permitted by
some RFCs. I believe the resolver library filters out hostnames
with odd characters in them.

	David.


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