Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 18:27:37 +1000 From: Phil Homewood <pdh@bit.net.au> To: Craig Beasland <craig@hotmix.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Name resolution Message-ID: <20000522182737.V28335@atlas.bit.net.au> In-Reply-To: <A1FB33621BC3D311872D004005F62F6C591A@MANDELA>; from craig@hotmix.com.au on Mon, May 22, 2000 at 04:10:58PM %2B0800 References: <A1FB33621BC3D311872D004005F62F6C591A@MANDELA>
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Craig Beasland wrote: > www2.eddept.wa.edu.au. Sorry about that, I should be much more careful when > posting these things. I carefully check the spelling of eddept and forgot > to check the rest of the address. Once again my apologies. Ah ha... > > A domain www2.eddept.wa.gov.au cannot be reached from FreeBSD. I have > tried > > to ping this machine from FreeBSD machines and get a cannot resolve error. > > Using windows or Linux I do not get this error. All machines use the same > > DNS servers and the domain looks up OK using nslookup (to an alias). Windows and Linux are both broken. FreeBSD is Doing The Right Thing. www2.eddept.wa.edu.au 64004 IN CNAME centoff_dw3.eddept.wa.edu.au Underscores are NOT valid in hostnames. Refer RFC 1123, section 2.1, and RFC 952. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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