From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 22 1:27:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atlas.bit.net.au (atlas.bit.net.au [203.18.94.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B76537BA68 for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 01:27:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pdh@atlas.bit.net.au) Received: (from pdh@localhost) by atlas.bit.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) id SAA30913; Mon, 22 May 2000 18:27:37 +1000 Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 18:27:37 +1000 From: Phil Homewood To: Craig Beasland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Name resolution Message-ID: <20000522182737.V28335@atlas.bit.net.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from craig@hotmix.com.au on Mon, May 22, 2000 at 04:10:58PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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