Underscores in Host Names
Thomas Schulz
schulz at adi.com
Thu May 19 14:45:56 UTC 2005
In article <d6fubl$2fgu$1 at sf1.isc.org>, R.D. <rdwyer at quick-link.com> wrote:
>Hello all.
>We have a client containing an underscore in the email address domain
>name. Our email server rejects it because of it's violation of the RFC
>standard. This individuals claim is that he doesn't have problems
>anywhere else and if this is going to be a problem he's "going to take
>his business elsewhere"!
>
>I understand it's a violation of the standard, but does it pose a
>security hole to the email server to allow this sort of mail?
>Shouldn't this individual be experiencing probelms elsewhere. . . . I
>doubt I am the only one.
>
>Thanks
If I recall correctly, the reason for the restriction on the use of an
underscore is that there was a concern that it could be confused with a
dsah. This could possibly cause a lot of frustration with mistyped names
and possibly a security problem if two names differed by only an underscore
verses a dash.
This would not be much of a security hole. I would not loose business
over it.
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Tom Schulz
schulz at adi.com
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