From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 15 17:25:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA15376 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:25:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA15370 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:25:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id LAA08873; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:54:52 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701160124.LAA08873@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Underscore in domainname? In-Reply-To: from Jaye Mathisen at "Jan 15, 97 04:04:15 pm" To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:54:50 +1030 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jaye Mathisen stands accused of saying: > > I'm using squid as a proxy server under FreeBSD-current, and a few of our > users are having trouble wiht www.mcafee.com, which is a CNAME for > sc_axp2.mcafee.com. > > The _ is apparently causing the problem, as other hosts with _'s kill > squid as well. BIND seems to think that anybody with an _ in their name > is bogus, or at least, no response is ever authoritative. BIND is correct. Underscores are illegal. Pester McAfee's hostmaster to rename the machine, and suggest that they should stay current to avoid looking like such damn incompetents. 1/2 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[