From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 6 02:18:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA27241 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 May 1997 02:18:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beta.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (beta.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA27235 for ; Tue, 6 May 1997 02:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by beta.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA03171; Tue, 6 May 1997 11:18:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199705060918.LAA03171@beta.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: DNS strangeness In-Reply-To: <199705052301.RAA16000@cube.i-pi.com> from Kenneth Ingham at "5. May. 97 16:59:11" To: ingham@i-pi.com (Kenneth Ingham) Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 11:18:04 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jordyn@bestweb.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Are you aware that _ is not a legal character in domain names? > > Recent versions of named claim to be enforcing this. You might add to your /etc/named.boot file: check-names primary fail check-names secondary warn check-names response ignore PING viewtek_comm1.pcnet-inc.com (206.98.180.168): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 206.98.180.168: icmp_seq=1 ttl=116 time=165.331 ms Robert -- Dr. Robert Eckardt ( Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Inst.f.Theor.Physik, NB6/169 ) Universitaetsstrasse 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany ----X---8---- Telefon: +49 234 700-3709, Telefax: +49 234 7094-574 8 E-Mail: RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de --------8---- URL: http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte >>> A magician never reveals his secret: the unbelievable trick becomes <<< >>> simple and obvious once it is explained. <<<