Allow underscores in DNS names
M. Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Mar 30 05:06:54 PST 2003
In message: <xzp4r5ljitl.fsf at flood.ping.uio.no>
des at ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
: "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
: > When this has come up in the past, it was decreed that _ is a bad bad
: > bad bad idea, even though people want it. You might want to check the
: > ancient archives (1998?) for all the reasons why.
:
: Arguments presented in ancient archives are not necessarily relevant
: five years later.
True. However, they are still relevant today. '_' is illegal in DNS
names, is rejected by the majority of hosts on the internet and
generally is a bad idea. If you do it, make it optional.
Warner
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