From owner-freebsd-net Mon Aug 7 10:24:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1DB37B9BD; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:24:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-72-68.netcologne.de [213.168.72.68]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA05285; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:23:59 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e77HNq902614; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:23:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:23:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Randy Bush Cc: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apparently FreeBSD-specific DNS failure In-Reply-To: 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, 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message