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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- "The very best, and oldest, computer system built by man is Stonehenge. Built by the Druids, who didn`t die out, but went bankrupt trying to debug the software." --unknown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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