Hi,
please don't top post. Answer below...
Werner.Rost@xxxxxx wrote:
Come on, some of you must know the solution to this one.
I've been trying to goto this url: http://-kol.deviantart.com/
but squid does not let me, I get this error: (in Firefox)
What does
nslookup http://-kol.deviantart.com/
tell you?
It fails miserably as the DNS doesn't know anything about URLs.
Removing the superfuous characters also fails - nslookup treats the
parameter as an option as it begins with a '-'.
RFC952 'DoD Internet host table specification' and RFC1101 'DNS encoding
of network names and other types' both state:
The current syntax for network names, as defined by [RFC 952] is an
alphanumeric string of up to 24 characters, which begins with an
alpha, and may include "." and "-" except as first and last
characters.
So you therefore _cannot_ start a host / domain name with a hyphen -
inform the provider of this service that they need to adhere to the
standards, after all that's what they're there for.
HTH,
Neil.
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Neil Hillard hillardn@xxxxxxxxx
Westland Helicopters Ltd. http://www.whl.co.uk/
Disclaimer: This message does not necessarily reflect the
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