Resolver Issues (non valid hostname characters)

[David J Duchscher]

On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 04:17  PM, Terry Lambert wrote:

> David J Duchscher wrote:
>> Since I don't believe I can create such a program to your 
>> specification,
>> I guess you win.  All I can say is that gethostbyname will return host
>> names with underscore character on the those operating systems.
>
> I think you can.  You can write a program which looks up the
> IP of "demo_host" in some domain under your own control, in
> which you have created the record for "demo_host" with an IP
> address of 1.1.1.1.
>
> Then you run the program, and it does a forward lookup on
> the name, and prints the first message if it gets "1.1.1.1",
> and prints the second if it gets and error.
>
> I would do this for you, but since I believe all hosts I own
> comply with RFC-952, I am unable to create the DNS record for
> testing.
>
>
> For bonus points, use a free IP address in your addres block,
> instead of 1.1.1.1, and, if the lookup is successful, do a
> reverse lookup, too, and make sure both gethostbyname() and
> gethostbyaddr() work the way you say they work.

Is that all, why didn't you say so in the first place.  When someone 
says
100% accuracy, it pretty much has the meaning to me that you are not 
going
succeed because you will never meet their definition of 100%.

DaveD