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Subject: Re: inetd problems 
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In message <20000610065841.A20751@pir.net>, Peter Radcliffe writes:
> "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> probably said:
> > I can't quote you references right now, but we came to the
> > conclusion that the '_' character was invalid in host names.  We had
> > similar problems delivering reports to customer's networked printers
> > that contained underscores in their names.  We eventually got the
> > customer to change the '_' to '-'.
> 
> "_" is not a valid character in a name in the IN zone of DNS but is
> not invalid in DNS, strictly.
> 
> Valid characters in the IN zone are [0-9a-zA-Z-].
> 
> bind used to allow _ in names by default, so pople used them. More
> recent versions of bind disallow this in primary zones by default (but
> you can turn it off in case you arn't serving IN zones) but to only
> warn about it in secondary zones.
> 
> It's going to take a long time to get rid of all the entries
> containing "_" out there, so expect to have to deal with it :/

The standard was changed about 5 years ago.


Regards,                       Phone:  (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert                      Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team   Internet:  Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC





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