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

From: Adam Polkosnik (apolkosnik_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/18/05

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    Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:00:18 -0500
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    It seems to be caused by adelphia's DNS servers.

    On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:48:34 -0500, Adam Polkosnik <apolkosnik@gmail.com> 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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