On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:38:01AM -0400,
terry(_at_)ashtonwoodshomes(_dot_)com <terry(_at_)ashtonwoodshomes(_dot_)com>
wrote
a message of 73 lines which said:
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.