From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 17 21:10: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF0D14D2F for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:10:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id WAA10831; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 22:09:38 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990317220420.03f15d50@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 22:09:00 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Brett Glass Subject: Oddity in name resolution Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A FreeBSD system here in the lab is having trouble resolving host names with underscores in them. Yes, I know, they're really not SUPPOSED to have underscores in them, but many do. For example, the mail exchanger for The Computer Museum in Boston is museum_alpha.tcm.org. They have no secondary MX, so mail sent to anyone there just bounces. We may also be missing INCOMING mail from them, since the mailer may reject mail from any host whose name it can't resolve. Some FreeBSD commands, such as dig, resolve the host name properly -- while others, such as traceroute (when I use the same host name as a command line argument) don't. Does anyone know of a way to get around this problem? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message