From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 5 16:11:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA26831 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 May 1997 16:11:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA26826 for ; Mon, 5 May 1997 16:11:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id XAA07336; Mon, 5 May 1997 23:10:26 GMT Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 16:10:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: "Jordyn A. Buchanan" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS strangeness In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 5 May 1997, Jordyn A. Buchanan wrote: > miro: {80} ping viewtek_comm1.pcnet-inc.com > ping: unknown host viewtek_comm1.pcnet-inc.com viewtek_comm1 is an illegal hostname. Underscores are not allowed. The resolver is enforcing this. Send mail to postmaster@[206.98.180.168] suggesting they fix it. Or you could use a 2.1.x machine to mail them. 2.2 can't see them either. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82