From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 19 5:49:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpg.casema.net (smtpg.casema.net [195.96.96.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2CBA37B406 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 05:49:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walter@binity.com) Received: (qmail 23572 invoked by uid 0); 19 Jul 2001 12:49:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slash.b118.binity.net) (212.64.76.102) by smtpg.casema.net with SMTP; 19 Jul 2001 12:49:18 -0000 Received: from silver.b118.binity.net (silver.b118.binity.net [172.18.3.10]) by slash.b118.binity.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20134151; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:48:03 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:50:45 +0200 From: Walter Hop X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.52f) Educational Organization: Binity X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <4022871066.20010719145045@binity.com> To: Veaceslav Revutchi Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: underscore in hostnames (dns problem) In-Reply-To: <20010719152038.A16848@zeus.dnt.md> References: <20010719152038.A16848@zeus.dnt.md> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [in reply to sl@zeus.dnt.md, 19-07-2001] > Do I have to contact those responsible for that domain and > point them to the problem of is underscore allowed in zone file? That would be a good thing. Underscores are not allowed, although many implementations of DNS allow it and it has become a common error since. See also RFC 1035, available at ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1035.txt -- Walter Hop | +31 6 24290808 | Finger for public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message