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I seem to recall there being some browser/OS combination that could not handle underscores at the beginning of addresses. What are you using, and can you access
by GHFigs 17y ago
I seem to recall there being some browser/OS combination that could not handle underscores at the beginning of addresses. What are you using, and can you access it with another browser?
- decklin 17y agoOn Linux, neither Chrome nor Firefox are working for me, yet: $ host _why.usesthis.com _why.usesthis.com has address 74.207.245.100 odd. [Edit: Looking at darshan's post below, I understand why: host (part of the BIND distribution) uses its own resolver; everything else goes through the system facility (i.e. glibc). I still don't know how to fix it, though.]
- pwmanagerdied 17y agoIt's not working for me in either Chrome nor Firefox.
- jackowayed 17y agoNot the problem: $ curl http://_why.usesthis.com/ curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host '_why.usesthis.com'
- darshan 17y agoIt's definitely the underscore: http://usesthis.com/ http://usesthis.com/ is accessible, as are all the other interviews, but http://_why.usesthis.com/ http://_why.usesthis.com/ isn't. And it doesn't seem to be the browser's fault: $ ping richard.stallman.usesthis.com PING richard.stallman.usesthis.com (74.207.245.100) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from waferbaby.com (74.207.245.100): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=63.6 ms $ ping _why.usesthis.com ping: unknown host _why.usesthis.com So I can't resolve the domain name for some reason. This happens on both my home Gentoo box and my Slicehost Gentoo server.
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- varjag 17y agoIt's a DNS resolution issue. Underscores in domain names are invalid, but some DNS host software still resolves them, while others stick to the spec.
- thingie 17y agoI'd call this a fruit of this kind of DNS abuse. Yeah, OK, it looks nice, x.usesthis.com or whatever it is, but it forces you to make a new DNS lookup for each page, instead of using cached www.usesthis.com/something. And, as we can see, you can even make the address invalid. It's quite sad. :-/
- GHFigs 17y agoWeb content that is invalid according to one or more standards? Surely you must be joking.
- andrewtj 17y agoUnderscores have been allowed in domain names for quite some time. DNS based Service Discovery even requires their use. EDIT: If I'm interpreting the specs correctly, underscores are fine in a domain name but not in a hostname.
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- harma 17y agoI've got to it by visiting the main site and using Tamper Data to set the host in the HTTP headers to '_why.usesthis.com' - not idea but works!