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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Subject: Re: bin/2612: Illegal domain names trouble (gethostbyname fails?)
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2612; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: hsu@clinet.fi
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/2612: Illegal domain names trouble (gethostbyname fails?)
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 22:08:39 +0100

 As Heikki Suonsivu wrote:
 
 > Name:    cs_web.crystal.com
 
 This has been discussed to death already.  Aren't you reading the
 mailing lists?
 
 > named seems to ignore check-names, or something else fails (gethostbyname?)
 > Even though the "correct" fix is fixing bad names, named/whatever should
 > not enforce it this hard, or at least it should be possible work around ?
 
 You can recompile your resolver lib.  We won't ship something that
 hasn't got the authority stamp by ISC (even though i personally
 disagree with this).
 
 I gonna close that PR, since it's nothing we could `fix'.
 
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 cheers, J"org
 
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