From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 09:25:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA20376 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:25:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA20358 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:25:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id JAA03648; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:20:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Andrew McNaughton cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: names allowed by bind 8 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > If I upgrade to bind 8, will my machine recognise domain names starting > with a digit as per rfc1123? Yes. > How about underscores as per informational > rfc1035? Yes. I started to write No but while checking the docs for the option to revert to traditional behaviour I found that the current defaults allow this. If you should run into problems with these take a look at the options {} section of named.conf and in particular check-names. The defaults are check-names master fail; check-names slave warn; check-names response ignore; meaning you can't use these names in your own zone files but will be able to resolve them on broken networks. Seems like a good balance. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, a California corporation dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message