legal hostnames in zone files
Danny Mayer
mayer at gis.net
Tue Feb 13 03:22:35 UTC 2001
At 11:20 AM 2/12/01, Borgia Joe A Contr AFRL/IFOS wrote:
>Is it possible to have hostnames with underscores in the zone files? I'm
>testing
>8.2.3, and it seems to be having trouble loading zones with hostnames that
>have underscores. When I take the underscores out, it seems to load okay.
>But domain-wide, I have 287 systems with underscores in the hostname. It
>would
>suck to have to touch all these boxes and change them just to suit 8.2.3.
>
>Still...if I have to....<sigh>. It just seems like I'm missing something.
What you are missing are the standards. It has never been legal to have
underscores in names. BIND 8.2.3 is just checking the names against the
standards and rejecting illegal names.
Danny
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