valid names on RRs

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Tue Jul 13 19:41:57 UTC 1999


yes it is legal..


Michael Voight
Cisco TAC

spitz at us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> Is the following a legal name?
> 
> fred.barney    IN   A    1.1.1.1
> 
> Using a 4.9.3 server, the name fred.barney.xxx (xxx being my domain) is resolved
> correctly, but I'm not sure if I'm violating any naming rules.  I would prefer
> not to set up a barney.xxx domain.
> 
> In a quick look through the RFCs and the DNS and BIND book, I don't see anything
> that tells me this in invalid.
> 
> Thanks,  Julie
> 
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