Yes! :) Re: Any good DNS maintenance tools

[Måns Nilsson]

In article <2.2.32.19990927170316.00d637b8 at localhost>, Luigi P. Bai wrote:
>According to Internet Draft 
>"A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)" at
>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnsind-rfc2052bis-02.txt, the
>underscore '_' character is important in names which point to servers. The
>next release of Kerberos from MIT will use this functionality, so any tool
>which manipulates DNS zones should take this into consideration.
>
>lpb
>
>At 20:09 09/26/1999 GMT, Måns Nilsson wrote:
>--- Begin Original Message ---
>[snip]
>>I took a quick look. Some comments:
>>
>>* No checking for illegal characters. I was able to input both 'å' and 
>>  the perennial plague '_' in host names. This should be easy to fix.
>>
>[snip]
>--- End Original Message ---

Oh. I am aware that there is some expansion wrt allowed characters, but I
do not see the reason. I am probably just blind, or something. Anyway, since
there still is checking for among others underscore in BIND, AFAICT, and also
an option to reject zones based on that, I think that any tool worth its salt
should give the option to barf at them before they lead to a potential 
rejection. Besides, they are ugly :-).

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