Oh, ok -- I didn't know that was not really a legal hostname!  It's not my
host, it just has some info about Cellular Automata that I wanted to read
:).

Thanks a lot!

Bill


On 7/13/06, Yutaka Sato <pficabdyi-jmfhzl5iyqdw.ml@delegate.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In message <_A3394@delegate-en.ML_>
> on 07/14/06(04:17:49)
> you "Bill Burdick" <piigqbdyi-jmfhzl5iyqdw.ml@delegate.org> wrote:
> |For some reason, delegate is not resolving this address, but Linux's
> regular
> |resolver does: eric_rollins.home.mindspring.com  I can't seem to affect
> the
> |behavior by changing delegate's configuration settings.
>
> I think a hostname shoule be consist of [A-Z] [a-z] [0-9] "-" and "."
> following to the DNS standard.  Underscore "_" should be reserved to
> represent some non-hostname like a service name or a protocol name
> as in RFC2782.
> But at least, it might have to be tolerant to such usage of underscores
> in a hostname (which was disabled in DeleGate/9.2.0).
> So I'll re-enable it with a modification like the enclosed patch.
>
> Cheers,
> Yutaka
> --
>   9 9   Yutaka Sato <pfqcabdyi-jmfhzl5iyqdw.ml@delegate.org> http://delegate.org/y.sato/
> ( ~ )  National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
> _<   >_ 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8568 Japan
> Do the more with the less -- B. Fuller
>
> *** ../arc/delegate9.2.3-pre13/rary/vsaddr.c    Wed Jun 21 01:36:52 2006
> --- rary/vsaddr.c       Fri Jul 14 06:07:30 2006
> ***************
> *** 503,510 ****
> --- 503,512 ----
>                 if( isAlnum(nc) )
>                         continue;
>                 if( nc == '-' )
>                         continue;
> +               if( nc == '_' ) /* can be a service/protocol name */
> +                       continue;
>                 if( nc == '.' ){
>                         if( isAlnum(np[1]) || np[1] == 0 )
>                                 continue;
>                 }
>