From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 31 6:59:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu (broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E880314E5D for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 06:59:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU) Received: from graphics.cornell.edu (localhost.graphics.cornell.edu) by broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA270497790; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:56:30 -0400 Message-Id: <199908311356.AA270497790@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Paul T. Root" Cc: tbrock@mail.phoenix.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS question In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:24:05 CDT." <199908311324.IAA28414@iaces.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:56:29 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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