Weird Problem
Brad Knowles
brad.knowles at skynet.be
Wed Jun 27 20:23:56 UTC 2001
At 1:32 PM -0400 6/27/01, Smith, William E. (Bill), Jr. wrote:
> When doing via IP it returns the hostname in caps for
> whatever reason. The client in question here is NT4. This problem seems be
> consistent across NT 4 clients. When I lookup on some W2K clients, I don't
> see this behavior. When I look at the zone file the host is in lowercase.
This is almost certainly a resolver issue, since you see the same
behaviour on all NT4 clients, and not on W2k clients (nor in the zone
files). However, I don't know that there's anything you can do to
fix this problem. You'd be best off asking this question again on an
NT4 or W2k-related newsgroup or mailing list.
> I'm kinda baffled by this one but I'm still of the opinion that an
> application shouldn't be dependent on the case of a hostname. Running third
> party dns(bind 8.2.2P7 equivalent) on primary and 8.2.3 on secondaries. Has
> anyone see this behavior before? Any insight would be appreciated
BIND 8.2.2-P7 has known security holes, and should be upgrade
ASAP to at least 8.2.4 (the latest release of BIND 8), or preferably
BIND 9.1.2-REL or the latest release candidate for 9.1.3.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
/* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <root at ihack.net> */
/* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */
/* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */
/* */
/* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */
/* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */
dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}'
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