[ILUG] Class C Addresses

[Scott Wunsch]

On Wed, 07-Nov-2001 at 20:28:32 +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:

> > Take a look at the new RFC I mentioned.  It does, unfortunately, specify
> > that the underscore is now required.
> 
> which i dont quite understand, as "_" is not an allowed char in DNS 
> names. (unless that's changed too).

Note section 11 of RFC 2181.

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2181.html

True, I think the original definition of a "hostname" did specify that
hostnames should not contain underscores, but that doesn't mean that DNS
labels can't contain them.  Since the SRV record is not itself a hostname,
and legacy clients that might still have such limitations won't be looking
at them anyway, it's not a problem.

-- 
Take care,
Scott \\'unsch

... Cats took many thousands of years to domesticate humans.