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Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug

From: Warren Michelsen
Date: Thursday, May 24, 2001
Time: 7:56:09 pm

At 1:44 AM -0700 5/24/01, Men & Mice Support wrote:
>lookupd is not just a DNS lookup tool. It's also the system's netinfo lookup daemon, as well as ldap and a few other things. Take a look at the techinfo page mentioned below and you'll see what I mean.
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>I'm not all that familiar with the inner workings of Mac OS X, but it appears lookupd is the built-in resolver for all of these services - when you type a URL into a web browser on Mac OS X, the hostname is resolved by lookupd. So don't put upper-case characters in any hostnames you put in your hyperlinks, or else Mac OS X users won't be able to follow them..

That may be good advice but it's a work-around for Apple's bug. host/domain names are not supposed to be case -sensitive. Everything after the first "/" in a URL can be but per some RFC or other, host names are not, correct?

It is a bug.
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