Windows 2000 interoperability with BIND 8.2.2.5

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> 	BIND checks the RR's being added to a zone to see if they
> 	comform to the current policy level w.r.t. the use of
> 	illegal hostnames in a RR for this zone.  See check-names.
> 
> 	Now Window2000 tries to create a illegal hostname
> 	gc._msdcs.zzz.com and BIND rejects this in its default
> 	configuration.  You should really be asking MS why the W2k
> 	box is deliberatly ignoring RFC 952 when it chooses this name.
> 
> 	Mark
	
	You could also just make _msdcs.zzz.com a seperate zone with
	check-names set to ignore.

		zone "_msdcs.zzz.com" {
			type master;
			file "_msdcs.db";
			check-names ignore;
			allow-update { .... };
		}; 

	This should work (I havn't tried it).

	Mark

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