[dns-operations] about the underline in hostname

Warren Kumari warren at kumari.net
Tue Jun 3 14:21:19 UTC 2014


Not that we are getting off-topic or anything, but the Hackers
Dictionary has a great little article on the Sign EXtend instruction:
http://www.hacker-dictionary.com/terms/SEX

Hmmm. is this list moderated?!

W

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Mike Hoskins (michoski)
<michoski at cisco.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at>
> Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 at 5:32 AM
> To: "wbrown at e1b.org" <wbrown at e1b.org>
> Cc: "dns-operations at lists.dns-oarc.net" <dns-operations at lists.dns-oarc.net>
> Subject: Re: [dns-operations] about the underline in hostname
>
>>wbrown at e1b.org <wbrown at e1b.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Interesting reading.  I bet Site 1 was quite popular:
>>>
>>> --- quoting RFC 229 ---
>>> Site                  Standard Name              Alternate Name
>>> ----                  -------------              --------------
>>> 1                     UCLA-NMC                     SEX
>>> --- end quote ---
>>
>>The name comes from "Sigma-7 Experimental Timesharing System"
>>
>>http://www.postel.org/pipermail/internet-history/2012-May/002208.html
>
> Leave it to geeks to make SEX uninteresting.  ;-)
>
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