Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 18:05:05 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Domain name for www.mcafee.com Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970116180408.213q@panda.hilink.com.au>
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My letter to mcafee! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 17:50:32 +1100 (EST) From: Daniel O'Callaghan <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: sysadmin@mcafee.com Subject: Domain name for www.mcafee.com Hello, It seems that you have www.mcafee.com as a CNAME for sc_axp2.mcafee.com. Unfortunately, this is in violation of the BIND RFC, which explicity allows only [A-Za-z0-9] and '-' characters. To get over the problem, and allow WWW users to see your pages, can I suggest that you change your zone file to: sc-axp2 IN A 205.227.129.164 sc_axp2 IN CNAME sc-axp2 www IN CNAME sc-axp2 or to sc-axp2 IN A 205.227.129.164 sc_axp2 IN A 205.227.129.164 www IN CNAME sc-axp2 Please note that the www CNAME must point to the entry with the '-', not the one with the '_'. These solutions allow a migration from '_' to '-' without breaking any existing systems. It would of course also be appropriate to change the PTR record to point to sc-axp2. regards, Daniel O'Callaghan
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