underscores in hostname

[David Carmean]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 03:13:35PM +0000, Jim Reid wrote:

> BIND9 does not enforce hostname checking. There are two reasons for
> this. The first is that it should be up to applications to apply
> whatever checking criteria they choose on the names being looked up.
> This should not be a job for the name server. Secondly, there's a good
> chance that the encoding schemes for international domain names will
> mean that an ASCII rendition of a Japanese domain name (say) could
> well be an illegal hostname according to RFC1123.


Active Directory?  *sigh*