Problem with hostnames starting with hyphens, stars, etc. (but works fine on windows!)

So, I'm having trouble fetching pages from a set of URLs, but only
under linux (Red Hat FC4, FC5, and ES3) not under Windows XP Pro (it
works even under cygwin in Windows). Admittedly, the URLs are poorly
chosen, and the content is garbage. But it's for a customer, and I
have no control over that.

In any case, I've tried fetching the URLs using firefox and wget from a
windows machine, and that works fine. Under linux, I've used lynx,
wget and telnet to port 80 (not gonna set up X11 just to debug this
issue!). Always I get an error:

lynx: Unable to connect to remote host.
telnet/wget: Name or service not known

but, host (mind your "--" to stop argument processing) reveals:

-zero.piczo.com has address 64.124.63.70

And I can telnet, wget, lynx, etc. fine to that numeric address.

Finally, a list of example URLs that I'm working with:

http://*rommi*.piczo.com/?cr=4&rfm=y
http://-------sweetly-------.piczo.com/?cr=6&rfm=y

I'm totally stumped on this one...

Best,
Dav

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