From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 15 19:24:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA23515 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:24:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from DNS.Lamb.net (root@DNS.Lamb.net [207.90.181.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA23510 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:24:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from Gatekeeper.Lamb.net (ulf@gatekeeper.Lamb.net [207.90.181.2]) by DNS.Lamb.net (8.8.4/8.8.2) with ESMTP id TAA16040; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:37:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ulf@localhost) by Gatekeeper.Lamb.net (8.8.4/8.7.6) id TAA04120; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:23:13 -0800 (PST) From: Ulf Zimmermann Message-Id: <199701160323.TAA04120@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> Subject: Re: Underscore in domainname? To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:23:13 -0800 (PST) Cc: mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199701160124.LAA08873@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Jan 16, 97 11:54:50 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Jaye Mathisen stands accused of saying: > > > > I'm using squid as a proxy server under FreeBSD-current, and a few of our > > users are having trouble wiht www.mcafee.com, which is a CNAME for > > sc_axp2.mcafee.com. > > > > The _ is apparently causing the problem, as other hosts with _'s kill > > squid as well. BIND seems to think that anybody with an _ in their name > > is bogus, or at least, no response is ever authoritative. > > BIND is correct. Underscores are illegal. Pester McAfee's hostmaster to > rename the machine, and suggest that they should stay current to avoid > looking like such damn incompetents. > > 1/2 8) > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ > ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ > Oh, there are many incompetent people out there. Here an example about mti.sgi.com: hercules alf /usr/people/alf > ypcat hosts | wc -l 1273 hercules alf /usr/people/alf > ypcat hosts | grep _ | wc -l 827 and SGI has many, many more. :( Ulf. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net