On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:15:06PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > - Sites with domain names like <ker-.deviantart.com> do already exist! > > Do you think they should be accessible by any other proprietary > > operating system, but not Debian? Not really! > So if Windows accepts it then it must be OK? I don't think we have to > follow that rule. Otherwise you should be demanding support for NMB and > WINS in glibc. /me sweeps the winbind package under the rug > > - There is already an inconsistency among the different > > implementations in Debian (or Linux as a whole), as e.g. ping and any > > other program using gethostbyname() fail to resolv, whereas nslookup > > and host succeed. > This is what happens when you ignore Internet standards. This doesn't ignore Internet standards at all. nslookup and host are tools for querying DNS, which is *not* the same thing as querying a hostname. It's valid and reasonable for those tools to return the records present in DNS even when those records aren't well-formed hostnames. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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