Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:20:14 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Veaceslav Revutchi <sl@zeus.dnt.md> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: underscore in hostnames (dns problem) Message-ID: <20010719122014.G43977@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20010719152038.A16848@zeus.dnt.md>; from sl@zeus.dnt.md on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:20:38PM %2B0300 References: <20010719152038.A16848@zeus.dnt.md>
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--hK8Uo4Yp55NZU70L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:20:38PM +0300, Veaceslav Revutchi wrote: >=20 > Troubleshooting a mail problem today I discovered that the MX record > for the destination address has an underscore in it, something like > that: acb_def.domain.org >=20 > when I use dig it reports the IP for this weird hostname, but > if I try to ping or telnet to it I get respectively: >=20 > ping: cannot resolve abc_def.domain.org: Unknown server error > abc.def.domain.org: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution >=20 > ping and telnet is able to resolve the name on linux though. >=20 > Do I have to contact those responsible for that domain and=20 > point them to the problem of is underscore allowed in zone file? Yes. They're probably MCSEs and used to naming machines with _'s in the name :-) Kris --hK8Uo4Yp55NZU70L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7VzLtWry0BWjoQKURAqUpAJ0bzjzdSEb5wq1LrVD+qgmZlaVOowCbBCB8 1tRkmzWBc6l9tvHmtpzwnLg= =XJRd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hK8Uo4Yp55NZU70L-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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