Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 14:56:46 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@roguetrader.com> To: Greg Stringfellow <greg@smokey.prismnet.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIND Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970911145341.13683A-100000@roguetrader.com> In-Reply-To: <199709112014.PAA09359@smokey.prismnet.com>
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On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Greg Stringfellow wrote: > Here is an interesting question, or at least to me right now. > > I've got a customer who is trying to send mail to a particular location. The > hostname is "HPISD_ADMIN.HIGHLANDPARK.K12.TX.US". I remember reading > somewhere about the underscores in a hostname not being valid. But I just > can't seem to track it down. You are right, underscores are not a valid part of a domain name, even though old DNS servers would allow them (all that is valid is a-z0-9 and a dash, I believe). > Any ideas? Am I going crazy? Have I not read something that I should have > from being too busy? All of the above? I dont know why it is behaving as it does--I would suspect the reason its NOT working is because of the underscore, and 'nslookup' isn't being as pedantic about it as it should be. Two suggestions: 1) get them to fix their domain name 2) use the raw ip addr, as given by nslookup -Brandon Gillespie
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