Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 03:11:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Vivek Sadananda Pai <vivek@cs.rice.edu> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apparently FreeBSD-specific DNS failure Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008070306160.43365-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200008070811.DAA14294@cs.rice.edu>
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On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Vivek Sadananda Pai wrote:
> I'm trying to track down a DNS lookup failure that seems to be
> specific to FreeBSD. The site in question is www.wtime.net. Doing an
> nslookup on it is fine, but gethostbyname and getaddrinfo both fail on
> this - telnet fails, for example.
Okay, I found it..
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.wtime.net. 49M IN CNAME tdc_srv1.wtime.net.
tdc_srv1.wtime.net. 49M IN A 211.116.92.5
'_' is not a valid character for DNS host names. The FreeBSD resolver
correctly (i.e. following the RFC) refuses to perform an invalid address
query.
Kris
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