Messages On Startup
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Wed Sep 8 04:42:46 UTC 2004
In article <chkuq0$2eup$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard at Tesco.NET> wrote:
> p> I don't see why underscores should be used AT ALL, there have been
> p> at various times problems, it _is_ against RFC.
>
> No, it isn't. Read RFC 2181 section 11 again. Underscores are illegal
> in _host_ names, and in the domain portions of SMTP mailbox names; but
> they are perfectly acceptable in domain names. A flat ban on
> underscores in domain names is not in conformance with the standards.
And indeed, no one has proposed such a total ban, and I don't think BIND
implements that.
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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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