From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 16 05:36:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id FAA21406 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 05:36:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.ge.com (ns.ge.com [192.35.39.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id FAA21396 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 05:36:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from thomas.ge.com (thomas.ge.com [3.47.28.21]) by ns.ge.com (8.8.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA06269; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:34:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from crissy.gemis.ge.com (crissy-ether.gemis.ge.com [3.29.7.204]) by thomas.ge.com (8.8.4/8.7.5) with SMTP id IAA18081; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:37:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from terrapin.salem.ge.com (terrapin.salem.ge.com [3.29.6.145]) by crissy.gemis.ge.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with ESMTP id IAA13572; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:28:23 -0500 Received: from combs.salem.ge.com (combs.salem.ge.com [3.29.5.200]) by terrapin.salem.ge.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id IAA03815; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:28:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (steve@localhost) by combs.salem.ge.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id IAA03801; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:28:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:28:20 -0500 (EST) From: "Stephen F. Combs" To: Jaye Mathisen cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Underscore in domainname? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jaye, Underscores are NOT LEGAL in domain/host names. I don't remember the RFC's but it's mentioned in one of them (it's somewhere in the 495 docs). ---- Stephen F. Combs Internet: CombsSF@Salem.GE.COM GE Industrial Systems Voice: 540.387.8828 Network Services Home: CombsSF-Home@Salem.GE.COM 1501 Roanoke Blvd FAX: 540.387.7106 Salem, VA 24153 LapTop: CombsSF-Mobile@Salem.GE.COM On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:04:15 -0800 (PST) > From: Jaye Mathisen > To: hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Underscore in domainname? > > > > 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. > > (I'm using BIND 4.9.5 on my main nameserver). > > If I had a better way to narrow this down, I would. Any tip appreciated. > >