From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 18 10: 2:19 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 80E7D14CC8 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:02:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA15916; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:01:54 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990318110122.03f07330@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:01:47 -0700 To: Dan Busarow From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Oddity in name resolution Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19990317220420.03f15d50@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there a way to do this with the default BIND that comes with FreeBSD? --Brett At 09:23 AM 3/18/99 -0800, Dan Busarow wrote: >On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Brett Glass wrote: >> 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. > >With bind8 you can control this, someone may have tightened it >up as the default allows these names through. > >See named.conf options { check-names } > >The defaults are > > check-names master fail; > check-names slave warn; > check-names response ignore; > >which will not allow *you* to have bad names in a zone you are >primary for, will complain about bad names in a domain you are >secondary for and allow bad names when querying other zones. > >Dan >-- > Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 > Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com > Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message