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Date:      Thu, 16 Jan 1997 10:13:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Allen W. Gambert" <gambert@cftnet.com>
To:        Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Underscore in domainname?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.970116101132.11260A-100000@renoir.cftnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970115160009.23098x-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>

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Yeah,  I had the same problem.  We've mailed mcafee letting them know of 
this problem.  The only way around this is to put an entry in your hosts 
file for that machine, ie,

	205.227.129.164		www.mcafee.com


Good luck,

Allen

On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Jaye Mathisen wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.
> 

Allen W. Gambert				(813)980-1317
CFTnet Operation Center				gambert@cftnet.com




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