From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 19 12:20:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-215.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 944E937B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:20:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 68CE366C4D; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:20:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:20:14 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Veaceslav Revutchi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: underscore in hostnames (dns problem) Message-ID: <20010719122014.G43977@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010719152038.A16848@zeus.dnt.md> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hK8Uo4Yp55NZU70L" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010719152038.A16848@zeus.dnt.md>; from sl@zeus.dnt.md on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:20:38PM +0300 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 --hK8Uo4Yp55NZU70L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:20:38PM +0300, Veaceslav Revutchi wrote: >=20 > Troubleshooting a mail problem today I discovered that the MX record > for the destination address has an underscore in it, something like > that: acb_def.domain.org >=20 > when I use dig it reports the IP for this weird hostname, but > if I try to ping or telnet to it I get respectively: >=20 > ping: cannot resolve abc_def.domain.org: Unknown server error > abc.def.domain.org: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution >=20 > ping and telnet is able to resolve the name on linux though. >=20 > Do I have to contact those responsible for that domain and=20 > point them to the problem of is underscore allowed in zone file? Yes. They're probably MCSEs and used to naming machines with _'s in the name :-) Kris --hK8Uo4Yp55NZU70L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7VzLtWry0BWjoQKURAqUpAJ0bzjzdSEb5wq1LrVD+qgmZlaVOowCbBCB8 1tRkmzWBc6l9tvHmtpzwnLg= =XJRd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hK8Uo4Yp55NZU70L-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message