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From: "Tom Savage" <tom@dhc.net>
To: "Brandon Gillespie" <brandon@roguetrader.com>,
        "Greg Stringfellow" <greg@smokey.prismnet.com>
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Subject: Re: BIND Question
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:41:25 -0500
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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

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> 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
>