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From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: Underscore in domainname?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970116101132.11260A-100000@renoir.cftnet.com> from "Allen W. Gambert" at "Jan 16, 97 10:13:18 am"
To: gambert@cftnet.com (Allen W. Gambert)
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:56:29 +0100 (MET)
Cc: mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@freebsd.org
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Allen W. Gambert wrote:
> 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
> 

Not true. There is a variable setting in resolv.conf where you can either
ignore `broken' hostnames, give warnings, or refuse them.
man 5 resolv.conf is your friend

-Guido