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Part of the problem is that NETBIOS allowed _ in hostnames but forbade - and Microsoft didn’t address the incompatibility by doing any hostname character transl
by fanf2 2y ago
Part of the problem is that NETBIOS allowed _ in hostnames but forbade - and Microsoft didn’t address the incompatibility by doing any hostname character translation between the Internet and NETBIOS worlds.
- bastard_op 2y agoExactly, and what lazy lug of a windoze admin in 2000 wanted to rebuild NT4 domains to a whole new naming standard that actually complied with the choice to use "modern" DNS instead of Netbios? Those admins would have been at Microsoft's door with pitchforks and torches for making work for them, so instead they capitulated and relaxed the standard.