named-xfer doesn't preserve case..

Derek J. Balling dredd at megacity.org
Tue Mar 20 01:03:38 UTC 2001


At 12:05 AM +0000 3/20/01, Mike Sawicki wrote:
>We use all caps in many of our PTR records in DNS.  Ever since we upgraded
>to BIND 8.2.3 all of our secondary (slave) servers aren't preserving this
>case and it forces everything to all lowercase.
>
>Does anyone know where in the code this is enforced?  I have looked around
>and haven't been able to find anything.  Please cc: via email if possible.
>Thanks.

Why does it matter? DNS is case-insensitive.

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