Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 08:26:52 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd problems Message-ID: <200006101527.e5AFRQ547669@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Jun 2000 06:58:42 EDT." <20000610065841.A20751@pir.net>
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In message <20000610065841.A20751@pir.net>, Peter Radcliffe writes: > "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> probably said: > > I can't quote you references right now, but we came to the > > conclusion that the '_' character was invalid in host names. We had > > similar problems delivering reports to customer's networked printers > > that contained underscores in their names. We eventually got the > > customer to change the '_' to '-'. > > "_" is not a valid character in a name in the IN zone of DNS but is > not invalid in DNS, strictly. > > Valid characters in the IN zone are [0-9a-zA-Z-]. > > bind used to allow _ in names by default, so pople used them. More > recent versions of bind disallow this in primary zones by default (but > you can turn it off in case you arn't serving IN zones) but to only > warn about it in secondary zones. > > It's going to take a long time to get rid of all the entries > containing "_" out there, so expect to have to deal with it :/ The standard was changed about 5 years ago. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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