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Stuart Henderson wrote:
> 
> > I can't think of anything - I'm not sure I like the '_' in
> > he hostname 'mail_server.primaryuk.com'
> 
> bind doesn't like underscores, they're not valid characters for use in
> domain names.

That's what I thought - though to be fair our NT boxes here resolved the name
OK... I still wouldn't trust them though :-) - Brings back memories of the
people who set their Win9X machines names to things like "Bob's only PC"
(which later becomes "Bob's only PC.isp.net") :)

-Kp


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