From owner-freebsd-net Mon Aug 7 3:11:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3312337B5D2; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 03:11:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA47204; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 03:11:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 03:11:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Vivek Sadananda Pai Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apparently FreeBSD-specific DNS failure In-Reply-To: <200008070811.DAA14294@cs.rice.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message