Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:01:55 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: name server not found Message-ID: <199903241301.IAA05886@bilver.magicnet.net> In-Reply-To: <36F8D689.9EB2A227@tdx.co.uk> from Karl Pielorz at "Mar 24, 1999 12:11:53 pm"
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Karl Pielorz recently said: > > 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") :) AISTR it was 5 or so years ago when the RFC's were changed to make "_" illegal in machine names. I set up a machine as an email gateway for a site with a lot of Novell and Win product. I made the comment to the adminstrator then the the names with underscores were illegal. However the older versions of Bind accepted this. It is the newer versions that enforce that. You can't say "to be fair our NT boxes resolved the name OK .." unless you are comparing it with the versions of BIND in the 1995/6 area. Just because it used to comply doesn't mean the MS needs to stick with that. They do need to keep up with current standards. Bill -- bill@bilver.magicnet.net | bv@wjv.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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