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<TITLE>RE: [rt-users] Auto-logout problem with IE</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Message d'origine-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>De : Tom Lichti [<A HREF="mailto:tom@redpepperracing.com">mailto:tom@redpepperracing.com</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Envoye : vendredi 31 janvier 2003 22:42</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>A : rt-users@lists.fsck.com</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Objet : Re: [rt-users] Auto-logout problem with IE</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>>>I don't know if this is a DNS restriction or a problem with RT, but regardless, it's finally fixed.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>It isdefinitely is a restriction in the DNS. The RFCs are very clear about it, but Microsoft ignores it and let users put underscores in machines names, so now many people think it is authorized. The naming conventions in my company used to rely on underscores and we ran into A LOT of strange problems like this one. You really want to suppress those. Many software running on other OSes will refuse them, namely, Bind, the standard DNS for Unix boxes needs to be compiled with a specific setting to accept underscores. Most internet DNSes will not carry them.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Recently, IE started to be more restrictive on underscores in a domain. We had a perfectly working commercial application which suddenly would not run on some PCs while it was working on some others aparently perfectly similar. The only difference was a "security patch" some users had downloaded through the automatic windows update system.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Blaise</FONT>
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