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Date:      Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:54:50 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Underscore in domainname?
Message-ID:  <199701160124.LAA08873@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970115160009.23098x-100000@mail.cdsnet.net> from Jaye Mathisen at "Jan 15, 97 04:04:15 pm"

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Jaye Mathisen stands accused of saying:
> 
> I'm using squid as a proxy server under FreeBSD-current, and a few of our
> users are having trouble wiht www.mcafee.com, which is a CNAME for
> sc_axp2.mcafee.com.
> 
> The _ is apparently causing the problem, as other hosts with _'s kill
> squid as well.  BIND seems to think that anybody with an _ in their name
> is bogus, or at least, no response is ever authoritative.

BIND is correct.  Underscores are illegal.  Pester McAfee's hostmaster to
rename the machine, and suggest that they should stay current to avoid
looking like such damn incompetents.

1/2 8)

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