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From: Fabio Olive Leite <fleite@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] Underscore in hostnames
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:05:07 -0200
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 12:56:31PM +0900, Ian Kent wrote:
> =

> Not valid at all.
> And they are tolerated because the admin explicitly configures DNS to
> violate the RFC.

The sad thing is that mount(1) does no such validation, and allows one
to mount an NFS export on a hostname containing underscores just fine.
So we can end up in a situation where automount does not allow the
user to configure a working NFS mount she has.

Regards,
F=E1bio
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