Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:43 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oddity in name resolution Message-ID: <4.1.19990318210045.03f2e1a0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19990318232625.A62933@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <4.1.19990318110122.03f07330@localhost> <4.1.19990317220420.03f15d50@localhost> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990318091851.14678A-100000@java.dpcsys.com> <4.1.19990318110122.03f07330@localhost>
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At 11:26 PM 3/18/99 +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote: >Telling us which version of FreeBSD would be a good idea, since recent >versions of FreeBSD do have bind8 as standard. I'm not sure what the >definition of "recent" is though, you can check yourself if you like, >but 3.1-stable has bind8. We can't use a -STABLE version in any production application. We can only use -RELEASE versions, and then only once they get to at least the second point version (preferably the third). So we're using 2.2.8-RELEASE. >The real answer, of course, is to ask the people who have underscores in >their hostnames to fix their broken DNS, since as you say, underscores >are not allowed in hostnames. I have, of course, done that. But when our members complain that they can't turn in their homework to the local community college, or we can't contact The Computer Museum about donating time and possible equipment (both have happened recently), we need to have a workaround. Frankly, BIND should reject the zone file if there's an underscore in a host name, so long as the RFC hasn't been changed to allow it. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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