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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:01:47 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Oddity in name resolution
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990318110122.03f07330@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990318091851.14678A-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
References:  <4.1.19990317220420.03f15d50@localhost>

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Is there a way to do this with the default BIND that comes with FreeBSD?

--Brett

At 09:23 AM 3/18/99 -0800, Dan Busarow wrote:
 
>On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Brett Glass wrote:
>> A FreeBSD system here in the lab is having trouble resolving host names
>> with underscores in them. Yes, I know, they're really not SUPPOSED to have
>> underscores in them, but many do. For example, the mail exchanger for The
>> Computer Museum in Boston is museum_alpha.tcm.org. They have no secondary
>> MX, so mail sent to anyone there just bounces. We may also be missing
>> INCOMING mail from them, since the mailer may reject mail from any host
>> whose name it can't resolve.
>
>With bind8 you can control this, someone may have tightened it
>up as the default allows these names through.
>
>See named.conf options { check-names }
>
>The defaults are
>
>    check-names master fail;
>    check-names slave warn;
>    check-names response ignore;
>
>which will not allow *you* to have bad names in a zone you are
>primary for, will complain about bad names in a domain you are
>secondary for and allow bad names when querying other zones.
>
>Dan
>-- 
> Dan Busarow                                                  949 443 4172
> Dana Point Communications, Inc.                            dan@dpcsys.com
> Dana Point, California  83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4   8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82
>



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