From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 11 19:13:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA20389 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 19:13:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA20350; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 19:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id LAA18287; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 11:43:31 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970912114331.30906@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 11:43:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Patrick McConnell Cc: Tom Savage , Brandon Gillespie , Greg Stringfellow , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, HPISD_ADMIN@HIGHLANDPARK.K12.TX.US Subject: Re: BIND Question References: <199709112242.RAA15773@dhc.net> <19970912105950.15893@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <19970912105950.15893@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 10:59:50AM +0930 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 10:59:50AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 08:01:32PM -0400, Patrick McConnell wrote: > There are a number of problems here: > > 1. The postmaster mail ID is '('. I wonder how they got that in > there. > 2. Many names have underscores. This will cause problems. > 3. They only have one name server. I wonder how they got away with > that. > > I'm copying the guys at Highland Park. They'll probably want to fix > this. For continuity's sake, it's probably an idea to add some CNAMES > for the underscores. I take some of that back. The last message just bounced: HPISD_ADMIN@HIGHLANDPARK.K12.TX.US ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 HPISD_ADMIN@HIGHLANDPARK.K12.TX.US... Host unknown (Name server: hpisd_admin.highlandpark.k12.tx.us.: host not > found) There's obviously more wrong with their config than I thought. I'll try to contact them some other way. Greg