From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 31 6:32:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B3F314CD4 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 06:32:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from proot@iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by iaces.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA28414; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:24:05 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199908311324.IAA28414@iaces.com> Subject: Re: DNS question In-Reply-To: <99083108101000.29349@fdho-w5.fdnet.com> from Tony at "Aug 31, 99 08:07:57 am" To: tbrock@mail.phoenix.net Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:24:05 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No they are not legal. I think the spec is in RFC1035. Pre-4.9 Bind took them, but warnings started around 4.9. Vixie says that at some point, it will stop working at all in some future release. I had to fight this battle too. Never won. My new DNS/DHCP system automatically changes illegal characters to -. (Cisco Network Registrar). In a previous message, Tony said: > Are underscores ever acceptable in DNS entries? Some genius has placed over 50 > entries using underscores in our companies DNS system (assumably NT based) and > I constantly get warnings from named in syslog. > > Tony > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- "The very best, and oldest, computer system built by man is Stonehenge. Built by the Druids, who didn`t die out, but went bankrupt trying to debug the software." --unknown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message