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On Thursday 21 July 2005 10:20, Thorsten Ruffle-Brandt wrote: > John Daragon said the following: > >> http://what-.deviantart.com/ > > > > "what-" isn't a valid RFC1034 host name. My guess is that the DNS server > > used by the Linux box is being picky and the one used by the box with IE > > on it isn't. I've come across this before with hosnames using > > underscores... > > And so it should be - RFC1034 clearly states: > > "The labels must follow the rules for ARPANET host names. They must > start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior > characters only letters, digits, and hyphen. There are also some > restrictions on the length. Labels must be 63 characters or less." > > I'm not sure it is the DNS server, though - my linux box tells me in > Firefox, Konqueror and Opera "unknown host", while a WinXP box on the > same network, using the same DNS server, comes up with a result on some > search page in IE and Opera. Puzzling. Yeah, this matches my own problem. Same machine, dual boot. In winxp it works, in linux it doesn't. I mentioned the problem to the artist, but they seem unwilling to change their subdomain name, because they have generated a lot of traffic, and so don't understand why they would need to correct it. Anton -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html