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Re: DNS Wildcards Myth #1

2004-08-06 06:43:48
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:38:01AM -0400,
 terry(_at_)ashtonwoodshomes(_dot_)com <terry(_at_)ashtonwoodshomes(_dot_)com> 
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You are correct, 

No.

the underscore "_" is NOT a valid domain character.  It can be used
as a host name

No, it is exactly the opposite (see the detailed references I gave.)

by dns servers that support it,

All of them accept the _ or they are broken. But applications (or
their libraries such as the Unix libc) expecting host names will
probably not accept it.


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