Search Again: Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, May 24, 2001 Time: 8:03:07 pm At 7:55 PM -0700 5/24/01, Warren Michelsen wrote: >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. > > > >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? You are essentially correct; Internet domain names are not case sensitive. >It is a bug. Yes. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!

Messages In This Thread: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Administrator on May 23, 2001 at 11:43:45 am Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Rob Gridley on May 23, 2001 at 11:56:51 am Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Aaron Lynch on May 24, 2001 at 1:20:59 am Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Men & Mice Support on May 24, 2001 at 1:45:19 am Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Jim Grisham on May 24, 2001 at 2:14:56 am Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Aaron Lynch on May 24, 2001 at 2:17:24 am Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by David M. Dantowitz on May 24, 2001 at 5:21:41 am Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Warren Michelsen on May 24, 2001 at 7:56:09 pm Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Men & Mice Support on May 24, 2001 at 8:03:07 pm Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Administrator on Jul 11, 2001 at 9:43:27 am Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Aaron Lynch on Jul 11, 2001 at 1:02:24 pm Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Stonewall Ballard on Jul 11, 2001 at 7:39:31 pm Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by David M. Dantowitz on Jul 11, 2001 at 7:50:29 pm Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Aaron Lynch on Jul 11, 2001 at 9:09:46 pm Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by David M. Dantowitz on Jul 11, 2001 at 9:11:21 pm Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Aaron Lynch on Jul 11, 2001 at 9:34:04 pm Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Administrator on Jul 12, 2001 at 9:32:27 am Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Men & Mice Support on Jul 13, 2001 at 2:09:06 am Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Administrator on Jul 13, 2001 at 1:54:46 pm Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Aaron Lynch on Jul 13, 2001 at 1:57:19 pm Re: MacOS X Case-Sensitive DNS lookup bug by Men & Mice Support on Jul 16, 2001 at 5:09:04 am