Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:56:29 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com> Cc: tbrock@mail.phoenix.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS question Message-ID: <199908311356.AA270497790@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:24:05 CDT." <199908311324.IAA28414@iaces.com>
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The Cricket book, 3rd edition (pp. 77-79) says you can turn the warnings on/off on a per-zone. -Mitch >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) a >nd >> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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