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Re: Underscores in host names
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 12:46:32 +0200
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:05:56AM +0100, Tony Finch <dot () dotat at> wrote a message of 12 lines which said:
However case insensitivity puts a big spanner in the works.
And the fact that you can use any 8-bits character in a domain name but nothing says what the encoding is. UTF-8 ? Latin-1 ? Big5 ? (Some unscrupulous vendors promoted "international domain names" using that trick.) Hence the RFC 3490.
Current thread:
- Re: Underscores in host names, (continued)
- Re: Underscores in host names william(at)elan.net (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Mark Andrews (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Brad Knowles (May 19)
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- Re: Underscores in host names Jay R. Ashworth (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names bmanning (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Brad Knowles (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Brad Knowles (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Tony Finch (May 19)
- Re: Underscores in host names Tony Finch (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Stephane Bortzmeyer (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Duane Wessels (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names bmanning (May 18)
- Re: Underscores in host names Eric A. Hall (May 18)