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Date:      Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:56:29 -0400
From:      Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
To:        "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com>
Cc:        tbrock@mail.phoenix.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DNS question 
Message-ID:  <199908311356.AA270497790@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:24:05 CDT." <199908311324.IAA28414@iaces.com> 

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The Cricket book, 3rd edition (pp. 77-79) says you can turn the
warnings on/off on a per-zone.

-Mitch


>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) 
a
>nd
>> I constantly get warnings from named in syslog.
>> 
>> Tony
>> 
>> 
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> Built by the Druids, who didn`t die out, but went bankrupt trying to 
> debug the software."  --unknown 
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