From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 18 21:30: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6B8153DC for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:29:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA00370; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:59:33 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id PAA80671; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:59:31 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990319155931.V429@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:59:31 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass , Ben Smithurst Cc: Dan Busarow , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Use of FreeBSD-STABLE (was: Oddity in name resolution) References: <4.1.19990318110122.03f07330@localhost> <4.1.19990317220420.03f15d50@localhost> <4.1.19990318110122.03f07330@localhost> <19990318232625.A62933@scientia.demon.co.uk> <4.1.19990318210045.03f2e1a0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990318210045.03f2e1a0@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 09:04:43PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 18 March 1999 at 21:04:43 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 11:26 PM 3/18/99 +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > >> Telling us which version of FreeBSD would be a good idea, since recent >> versions of FreeBSD do have bind8 as standard. I'm not sure what the >> definition of "recent" is though, you can check yourself if you like, >> but 3.1-stable has bind8. > > We can't use a -STABLE version in any production application. Why not? That's what they're for. > We can only use -RELEASE versions, and then only once they get to at > least the second point version (preferably the third). So we're > using 2.2.8-RELEASE. It looks like you're going to have to stay with it. No more "third point" versions are planned. More seriously, I think you have misunderstood the purpose of the releases. -STABLE is, as the name suggested, better than -RELEASE. >> The real answer, of course, is to ask the people who have underscores in >> their hostnames to fix their broken DNS, since as you say, underscores >> are not allowed in hostnames. > > I have, of course, done that. But when our members complain that they can't > turn in their homework to the local community college, or we can't contact > The Computer Museum about donating time and possible equipment (both have > happened recently), we need to have a workaround. Frankly, BIND should > reject the zone file if there's an underscore in a host name, so long as > the RFC hasn't been changed to allow it. Agreed, it's difficult to argue "we're right, you're wrong", even if it's the case, if it means they can no longer communicate with you. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message