I'm so confused!!
Barry Margolin
barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Oct 11 18:59:17 UTC 1999
In article <3801F05D.32769411 at acp.org>,
David Spigelman <dspigelm at acp.org> wrote:
>1. I don't have a default TTL set for my domains. I'll try to find out more about
>that. Is there any advice you could give me in that regard?
Look up the message in www.deja.com. We answer about the "No default TTL
set" message at least once a week. The simple answer is to add "$TTL
<defaultTTL>" to the beginning of all your zone files.
>2. Many of my hostnames have underscores ( _ ) in them. Apparently this
>is illegal
>in BIND 8, though it worked fine in BIND 4. Why was this changed? Is it really
These names have always been invalid for hostnames; see RFC 952.
Checking for this was added in 4.9.3, and the default settings were changed
in 4.9.5.
>necessary for me to change the hostnames (there are a lot of them), or
>can this be
>changed? Assuming I can fix this problem without changing the hostnames,
>is there a
>reason changing the hostnames instead might be a better choice?
See the "check-names" option.
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