Silly DNS question (underscore in hostname)

Joshua Judson Rosen rozzin at geekspace.com
Fri Jan 22 17:40:52 EST 2010


"Michael ODonnell" <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> writes:
>
> > (I detest FUD, even if it's aimed at a target I also dislike.)
> 
> (sigh) You're right.  I could swear that just before I posted my comment I
> had read (parts of) a rant (with examples) about how Microsoft disregards
> the DNS hostname rules on the Internet, but maybe I was hallucinating - I
> now can't find anything like that anywhere on the WWW.  Given Microsoft's
> history I've gotten into the habit of assuming any account of their
> misbehavior to be true but, of course, that isn't license to repeat crap.

I remember that one of the changelog-entries for ISC dhcpd was:

    - Don't trust hostnames provided by client - Win95 allows *spaces* in
      client-supplied hostnames!

Maybe that was it?

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