From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Nov 21 13:34:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from spammie.svbug.com (mg128-177.ricochet.net [204.179.128.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A31937B4CF for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:34:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from spammie.svbug.com (localhost.mozie.org [127.0.0.1]) by spammie.svbug.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00476; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:34:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jessem@spammie.svbug.com) Message-Id: <200011212134.NAA00476@spammie.svbug.com> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:34:02 -0800 (PST) From: opentrax@email.com Reply-To: opentrax@email.com Subject: Re: misc/22980: Strange behaviour in domain name resolution!! To: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200011210650.WAA42253@freefall.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 20 Nov, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > The following reply was made to PR misc/22980; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Andre Albsmeier > To: Marco Pizzi > Cc: Andre Albsmeier , > m.pizzi@net-one.it, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: misc/22980: Strange behaviour in domain name resolution!! > Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:44:47 +0100 > > On Mon, 20-Nov-2000 at 23:07:44 +0100, Marco Pizzi wrote: > > At 22.00 20/11/00 +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > >On Mon, 20-Nov-2000 at 09:28:53 -0800, m.pizzi@net-one.it wrote: > > > > > > > > -- > > > > parigi# nslookup nw_milano.bgsdarcy.it > > > > Server: ginevra.net-one.it > > > > Address: 212.177.116.30 > > > > > > > > Non-authoritative answer: > > > > Name: nw_milano.bgsdarcy.it > > > > Address: 193.70.120.194 > > > > -- > > > > Now, look at this: > > > > --- > > > > parigi# telnet nw_milano.bgsdarcy.it 25 > > > > nw_milano.bgsdarcy.it: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution > > > > > >Maybe removing the illegal underscore might help. You could use > > >a '-' instead of the '_'. > > > > But THAT is the real name of the server. > > Well, I didn't doubt that it is the real name. But the > name is illegal since it contains an underscore. I don't > know if this causes the problem. > > > That is not my server. > > Also, the name resolution doesn't fail on a Linux or a Solaris machine! > > That doesn't mean they are correct. > Yes, there is an RFC for this also. Does anyone remember the RFC off hand and where to get it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message