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Date:      Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:20:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: names allowed by bind 8
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980929090227.20891B-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980929192258.7754c-100000@aniwa.sky>

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On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Andrew McNaughton wrote:
> If I upgrade to bind 8, will my machine recognise domain names starting
> with a digit as per rfc1123?

Yes.

>                 How about underscores as per informational
> rfc1035?

Yes.  I started to write No but while checking the docs for the option
to revert to traditional behaviour I found that the current defaults
allow this.  If you should run into problems with these take a look
at the options {} section of named.conf and in particular check-names.
The defaults are
    check-names master fail;                                  
    check-names slave warn;  
    check-names response ignore;

meaning you can't use these names in your own zone files but will be
able to resolve them on broken networks.  Seems like a good balance.

Dan
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 Dan Busarow                                                  949 443 4172
 Dana Point Communications, a California corporation        dan@dpcsys.com
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