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Date:      Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:24:05 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com>
To:        tbrock@mail.phoenix.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DNS question
Message-ID:  <199908311324.IAA28414@iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <99083108101000.29349@fdho-w5.fdnet.com> from Tony at "Aug 31, 99 08:07:57 am"

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No they are not legal. I think the spec is in RFC1035.
Pre-4.9 Bind took them, but warnings started around
4.9. Vixie says that at some point, it will stop
working at all in some future release.

I had to fight this battle too. Never won. My new
DNS/DHCP system automatically changes illegal characters
to -. (Cisco Network Registrar).

In a previous message, Tony said:
> Are underscores ever acceptable in DNS entries?  Some genius has placed over 50
> entries using underscores in our companies DNS system (assumably NT based) and
> I constantly get warnings from named in syslog.
> 
> Tony
> 
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