Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:23:13 -0800 (PST) From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Underscore in domainname? Message-ID: <199701160323.TAA04120@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> In-Reply-To: <199701160124.LAA08873@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Jan 16, 97 11:54:50 am"
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> 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)
>
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Oh, there are many incompetent people out there. Here an example about
mti.sgi.com:
hercules alf /usr/people/alf > ypcat hosts | wc -l
1273
hercules alf /usr/people/alf > ypcat hosts | grep _ | wc -l
827
and SGI has many, many more. :(
Ulf.
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