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Date:      Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:23:52 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>
To:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: apparently FreeBSD-specific DNS failure
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008071917240.326-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de>
In-Reply-To: <E13LqB4-0005df-00@rip.psg.com>

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On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Randy Bush wrote:

> > '_' is not a valid character for DNS host names.
> 
> bzzzt!  see rfc 2181 sec 11

I think you might have read that wrong.  In that section it uses the
word "binary" to mean binary records, not "binary" entries (i.e.
records with a LHS and RHS, not charaters like \0012 or whatever.)

Besides that, section 11 suggests reading RFC1123 which is pretty
clear about names (in section 2.1) which outlines a single relaxing of
the name convention in RFC952 (which BTW doesn't allow for a '_')

-Paul.



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