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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
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Subject: Domain name for www.mcafee.com 
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My letter to mcafee!

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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 17:50:32 +1100 (EST)
From: Daniel O'Callaghan <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: sysadmin@mcafee.com
Subject: Domain name for www.mcafee.com

Hello,

It seems that you have www.mcafee.com as a CNAME for
sc_axp2.mcafee.com.  Unfortunately, this is in violation of the BIND RFC, 
which explicity allows only [A-Za-z0-9] and '-' characters.

To get over the problem, and allow WWW users to see your pages, can I 
suggest that you change your zone file to:

sc-axp2  IN A 205.227.129.164
sc_axp2  IN CNAME sc-axp2
www      IN CNAME sc-axp2

or to 

sc-axp2  IN A 205.227.129.164
sc_axp2  IN A 205.227.129.164
www      IN CNAME sc-axp2


Please note that the www CNAME must point to the entry with the '-', not 
the one with the '_'.

These solutions allow a migration from '_' to '-' without breaking any 
existing systems.

It would of course also be appropriate to change the PTR record to point to
sc-axp2.

regards,

Daniel O'Callaghan