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Date:      Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:44:45 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Webster <andrew@fortress.org>
To:        Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Underscore in domainname?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970115204259.18363D-100000@guardian.fortress.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970115160009.23098x-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>

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On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Jaye Mathisen wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.

Yes, the _ is indeed invalid.  See the domain naming convention policies 
on rs.internic.net.  The only legal characters now are the letters A through 
Z, the dash (-) and the digits 0 through 9.  Your version of bind is 
correctly thinking that the name with the _ is bogus.

Someone needs to send a nice letter explaining this to the mcafee sysadmins!


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