Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:58:52 +0100 (CET) From: Robert Eckardt <Robert.Eckardt@aranea.de> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: _ in hostnames Message-ID: <200003132158.WAA01750@aranea.de>
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Hi,
unfortunately I have lots of hostnames with `_' in them (like "dfsnfs1_0").
I tricked named to serve those names (check-name ignore) and nslookup resolves
the correct address.
However programs (like telnet, ping, ...) return "Unknown server error".
I assume this is caused by res_hnok() in /usr/src/contrib/bind/lib/resolv/res_comp.c
(Replacing "_" by "-" is not an option for some thousand hostnames. :-)
Is there an "official" way to convince the resolver to work with "_" ?
(This is with FreeBSD-3.2-R, FreeBSD-3.3-R and BIND-8.1)
Besides, NT4 has no problems with "_".
Ciao,
Robert
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Dr. Robert Eckardt Robert.Eckardt@Robert-Eckardt.de
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