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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.mrtc.org!news.he.net!supernews.com!visi.com!mr.net!europa.clark.net!worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.net.uk!azure.xara.net!xara.net!emerald.xara.net!xara.net!diamond.xara.net!xara.net!news From: tjh@xara.net (Timothy Hunt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 970209-SNAP Problems. Date: 18 Mar 1997 02:11:36 -0000 Organization: Xara Networks Ltd Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5gktko$qmb@diamond.xara.net> References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970317190540.17138A-100000@enteract.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: diamond.xara.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37319 In article <Pine.BSI.3.95.970317190540.17138A-100000@enteract.com>, Kevin Dulzo <kdulzo@enteract.com> wrote: >* The resolver routines DO NOT resolve a hostname containing an underscore >"_". If i enable NIS lookups in /etc/host.conf they sometimes resolve, >although yp_match consistently errors and times out. The only permitted characters in a domain name are a-z1-9 and -, with . to separate segments. each segment must start with [a-z0-9] THis is case insensitive of course. ie, underscore "_" is not a legal character in a hostname/domainname Timothy -- The above words are my words, and do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone else.