Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:41:25 -0500 From: "Tom Savage" <tom@dhc.net> To: "Brandon Gillespie" <brandon@roguetrader.com>, "Greg Stringfellow" <greg@smokey.prismnet.com> Cc: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BIND Question Message-ID: <199709112242.RAA15773@dhc.net>
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Brandon, Greg: Your customer is probably trying to send a message to (hpisd_admin@highlandpark.k12.tx.us) Highland Park ISD's url is www.highlandpark.k12.tx.us Tom ---------- > From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@roguetrader.com> > To: Greg Stringfellow <greg@smokey.prismnet.com> > Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: BIND Question > Date: Thursday, September 11, 1997 3:56 PM > > On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Greg Stringfellow wrote: > > > Here is an interesting question, or at least to me right now. > > > > I've got a customer who is trying to send mail to a particular location. The > > hostname is "HPISD_ADMIN.HIGHLANDPARK.K12.TX.US". I remember reading > > somewhere about the underscores in a hostname not being valid. But I just > > can't seem to track it down. > > You are right, underscores are not a valid part of a domain name, even > though old DNS servers would allow them (all that is valid is a-z0-9 and a > dash, I believe). > > > Any ideas? Am I going crazy? Have I not read something that I should have > > from being too busy? All of the above? > > I dont know why it is behaving as it does--I would suspect the reason its > NOT working is because of the underscore, and 'nslookup' isn't being as > pedantic about it as it should be. Two suggestions: > > 1) get them to fix their domain name > 2) use the raw ip addr, as given by nslookup > > -Brandon Gillespie >
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