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Re: This is why we chose not to use underscores

2004-02-25 03:26:40
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On Tuesday 24 Feb 2004 21:52, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
Heh.  Someone was trying to view the Hotmail record and ran into trouble:
| > host -t txt _ep.hotmail.com
|
| host: convert UTF-8 textname to IDN encoding: prohibited character found
|
| > dig  txt _ep.hotmail.com
|
| dig: convert UTF-8 textname to IDN encoding: prohibited character found
|
| okee-dokee.... guess I need to look at a newer BIND than....me
| rummages... 9.2.3.

But this is a client setting, rather than a DNS library issue. Nobody is going 
to use dig or host in their MTA to do DNS lookups.

- -- 
Matt.
<:->get a SMart net</:->
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