The following reply was made to PR misc/35254; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>
To: M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/35254: telnet (and others?) provide
 false/misleading/useless error message for name resolution failure
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:55:42 +0900 (JST)

 In message <200612151646.RAA0000090650@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
 	on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:46:54 +0100,
 	Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de> wrote:
 > I didn't check which characters are allowed at which
 > position, so the appended patch is likely nonsense,
 > but it shows where the behaviour originates.
 AFAIR, hostname; A or AAAA record dosen't allow '_' in leaf label.
 BIND 9 (may be also BIND 8) refuse to load such a record in primary
 zone files.
 
 So, nothing is wrong but www.aka.fi's DNS.
 
 -- 
 Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>