[Full-disclosure] Retraction:Re XP updates breaking dash in domain names?

[Adam Polkosnik <apolkosnik@xxxxxxxxx>]

It seems to be caused by adelphia's DNS servers.


On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:48:34 -0500, Adam Polkosnik <apolkosnik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> Just recently I've stepped across a little weirdness. It seems that
> all of the sudden XP machines fail to resolve names containg an ascii
> character 0x2d or in other words "-".
> I.E name resolution for domains along the lines of  one-example.com
> doesn't work.
> Last time I checked RFC921, 1033 hyphen was legal...
> 
> Did anyone else got hit by this issue?
> 
> Not that I use XP... The only way I was able to compensate for that
> was adding a static entry in system32\drivers\etc\hosts.
> 


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