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Date:      Mon, 22 May 2000 18:27:37 +1000
From:      Phil Homewood <pdh@bit.net.au>
To:        Craig Beasland <craig@hotmix.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Name resolution
Message-ID:  <20000522182737.V28335@atlas.bit.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <A1FB33621BC3D311872D004005F62F6C591A@MANDELA>; from craig@hotmix.com.au on Mon, May 22, 2000 at 04:10:58PM %2B0800
References:  <A1FB33621BC3D311872D004005F62F6C591A@MANDELA>

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Craig Beasland wrote:
> www2.eddept.wa.edu.au.  Sorry about that, I should be much more careful when
> posting these things.  I carefully check the spelling of eddept and forgot
> to check the rest of the address.  Once again my apologies.

Ah ha...

> > A domain www2.eddept.wa.gov.au cannot be reached from FreeBSD.  I have
> tried
> > to ping this machine from FreeBSD machines and get a cannot resolve error.
> > Using windows or Linux I do not get this error.  All machines use the same
> > DNS servers and the domain looks up OK using nslookup (to an alias).

Windows and Linux are both broken. FreeBSD is Doing The Right Thing.

www2.eddept.wa.edu.au   64004 IN        CNAME   centoff_dw3.eddept.wa.edu.au

Underscores are NOT valid in hostnames. Refer RFC 1123, section 2.1,
and RFC 952.


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