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From: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>
Subject: Re: misc/29388: DNS resolver problem (gethostbyaddr)
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The following reply was made to PR misc/29388; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>
To: "Alexander S. Usov" <usov@ukr.net>,
	freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/29388: DNS resolver problem (gethostbyaddr)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:22:39 -0700

 DNS does not allow '_' (underscores) in host names.  This is per
 one of the DNS RFC's (but of course I cannot find the number right
 now).
 
 - JimP
 
 On Thursday 02 August 2001 07:08 am, Alexander S. Usov wrote:
 > >Number:         29388
 > >Category:       misc
 > >Synopsis:       DNS resolver problem (gethostbyaddr)
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:
 > >Keywords:
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 02 07:10:24 PDT 2001
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Alexander S. Usov
 > >Release:        4-STABLE
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 >
 > FreeBSD darkini.itv 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #1: Wed Aug  1 13:48:00
 > EEST 2001     root@darkini.itv:/usr/src/sys/compile/DARKINI i386
 >
 > >Description:
 >
 > When I perform dns lookup with gethostbyaddr(3), and destination machine
 > has an underscore (_) in its name, I get an NO_RECOVERY error code.
 > When I use dig(1) or nslookup(1) I get a correct answer.
 >
 > Note:
 > As a DNS server/cache I use djbdns-1.05.
 >
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > >
 > >Fix:
 > >
 > >Release-Note:
 > >Audit-Trail:
 > >Unformatted:
 >
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