full-disclosure - XP updates breaking dash in domain names?

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Message-ID: <4f7b171e050318114853ab45ab@mail.gmail.com>
From: apolkosnik at gmail.com (Adam Polkosnik)
Subject: XP updates breaking dash in domain names?

Hello list,

Just recently I've stepped across a little weirdness. It seems that
all of the sudden XP machines fail to resolve names containg an ascii
character 0x2d or in other words "-".
I.E name resolution for domains along the lines of  one-example.com
doesn't work.
Last time I checked RFC921, 1033 hyphen was legal...

Did anyone else got hit by this issue?

Not that I use XP... The only way I was able to compensate for that
was adding a static entry in system32\drivers\etc\hosts.