Bug#575209: closed by Holger Levsen (Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent])

2010-03-25 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 13:15, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 11:21 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > - The advice in the cited RFC is already ignored. Domain names that > > start with a digit, e.g. 12345.foo.bar, can be resolved, whereas the > > RFC tells us "They [labels] must star

Bug#575209: closed by Holger Levsen (Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent])

2010-03-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 25.03.2010 14:15, schrieb Ben Hutchings: 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. Mac OS X, too, BTW. But that's not what I wanted to say. I wanted to say that I consider it

Bug#575209: closed by Holger Levsen (Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent])

2010-03-25 Thread Bjørn Mork
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.glibc,gmane.linux.debian.devel.general as well. Fabian Greffrath writes: > - Sites with domain names like do already exist! > Do you think they should be accessible by any other proprietary

Bug#575209: closed by Holger Levsen (Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent])

2010-03-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 11:21 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > reopen 575209 > reassign 575209 eglibc > found 575209 2.10.2-6 > found 575209 2.11-0exp6 > severity 575209 important > retitle 575209 Please resolv domain names with hyphens as border chars > tags 575209 + patch > thanks > > Hi Holger et

Bug#575209: closed by Holger Levsen (Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent])

2010-03-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
reopen 575209 reassign 575209 eglibc found 575209 2.10.2-6 found 575209 2.11-0exp6 severity 575209 important retitle 575209 Please resolv domain names with hyphens as border chars tags 575209 + patch thanks Hi Holger et al (please drop -devel out of the list of CCs if you feel this is getting of

Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname

2010-03-24 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Package: general Severity: important Dear all, I've found something that is most propbably a bug in Linux's resolv system, when trying to open a specific page with Epiphany (but any other browser will fail as well, please try out yourself). To reproduce, please visit