[6bone] Re: reverse 6dns painful (was Re: reverse DNSconsideredpointless)

[lb-6bone at projectdream.org (Lukas Beeler)]

* Gert Doering <gert@space.net>:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:37:04PM -0700, Colin Faber wrote:
> > Additionally unless I'm mistaken that standard still does not allow 
> > underscores '_' (something that MS ADS uses in host names)
> The fact that MS doesn't adhere to the standard doesn't mean the *standard*
> needs changing ("that standard still does not allow...").

Citing http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2782.txt:

|Introductory example
|
| If a SRV-cognizant LDAP client wants to discover a LDAP server that
| supports TCP protocol and provides LDAP service for the domain
| example.com., it does a lookup of
|
| _ldap._tcp.example.com
[ .. ]
|Service
| The symbolic name of the desired service, as defined in Assigned
| Numbers [STD 2] or locally.  An underscore (_) is prepended to
| the service identifier to avoid collisions with DNS labels that
| occur in nature.


Doesn't look like breaking a standard to me.

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